Nick Gier

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…

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.…

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho At 282 million people Indonesia is the largest Muslim majority nation in the world and fourth largest in population. It is a democratic republic and as such it protects its religious minorities.…

by Nick Gier, Emeritus Professor, University of Idaho Shorter version published in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News (May 13, 2025) My mother was a remarkable woman.  “Lots of spunk” would be a good way to describe her.  She was a fiery…

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 By Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho Published July 1, 2011 (some data out of date) People in these economies have simply studied harder,worked harder, and saved more than people in other…

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho I got to know Jim Wilson several years before his son Doug, pastor of Moscow’s Christ Church, showed up in my philosophy classes in the late 1970s. Jim and I developed a…

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…

by Nick Gier This rise in U.S. manufacturing construction is absolutely mind-blowing. —economist Joseph Politano The Economist, a British journal founded in 1837 to promote free markets and free trade, has called the Biden-Harris economy “the envy of the world.”…

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho The Infancy Gospel of James, though not part of the canonical Bible, was popular among Christians for centuries. The book tells the story of Mary from her miraculous conception to the birth…

by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho Easter, 2024             This is the time of year that Buddhists celebrate the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha; and Christians commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ.…