Sexual “Perversion” Everywhere in God’s Creation

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho One of Donald’s Trump’s first acts as president was to sign an executive order recognizing “two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible…

Nine Tigers A-roaring: East Asia’s Economic Miracles

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho For more on Hong Kong and Singapore see nfgier.com/hong-kong-and-singapore-a-tale-of-two-city-states Over the last several decades, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea have been called the “Asian Tigers.” With economic growth sometimes as…

Traders and Sufis Gave Rise to Indonesia’s Moderate Islam

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho In 2014 I published a book entitled The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective (nfgier.com/1171-2). In my research I discovered that there was relatively little religiously motivated violence in pre-colonial Asian societies.…

HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE: A TALE OF TWO CITY STATES

Is Confucian Capitalism Superior to Western Models? By Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho Published July 1, 2011 (some data out of date) People in these economies have simply studied harder,worked harder, and saved more than people in other…

Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter, and the Palestinians

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho I’m indebted to Rashid Khalidi’s One Hundred Years of War on Palestineand references to this work will be noted in parentheses If Israel decides to give full rights to only one ethnic group…