Helen Raleigh

This piece was first published in Helen's Substack newsletter. For more similar posts, please check out Confucius Never Said. The recent debate between Jemele Hill from The Atlantic and podcaster Kmele Foster on CNN has become viral. Hill states that capitalism is oppressive and is linked with white supremacy. Foster disagrees. It is one thing to admit that markets function imperfectly; it is quite another to assert that the system is oppressive and that private property and

The second half of February brings double excitement: the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are underway in Italy, coinciding with the start of Chinese New Year on February 16 (lasting 15 days). This overlap offers a perfect moment to reflect on two Chinese American athletes competing at the highest level: figure skater Alysa Liu (representing Team USA) and freestyle skier Eileen Gu (representing China). At first glance, Liu and Gu share several similarities. Both were born

The U.S. tech industry was shaken this week by the performance of DeepSeek’s latest chatbot. This Chinese AI startup's creation not only...

The following is an excerpt from my book on immigration, “ The Broken Welcome Mat. ” Given all the recent interests and discussion on the...

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The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) launched a multiyear effort to develop and elevate core arguments about why free enterprise is...

I’ve been thinking about Anna May Wong since I learned that Michelle Yeoh, the lead of Everything Everywhere All at Once, won the Oscars’...

One of the essential lessons from China’s Great Leap Forward is that catastrophic failures inevitably follow from politicians’ insistence...