The Tiananmen Square Massacre: 20 Years Later

As I watched the news this morning — between segments on the best spray tan for the summer and how angry Republicans are that Obama actually wants to talk to other countries and not just bomb them — I realized something: today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre ^[1]. Here’s a link to my piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education ^[2] on the legacy of Tiananmen Square. Long story short: China’s government has rewritten history and bribed its people with economic prosperity, to the point of complacency over ‘political matters.’ But they cannot erase history if we do not allow it.