scholar

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What Trump chooses to say in China “might be difficult to predict,” said Jyh-Shyang Sheu, a scholar of Chinese politics and military capabilities based in Taiwan.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

To which reader Michael Mendle, an emeritus professor at the University of Alabama and scholar of 17th-century British history, responded:

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Prior to his appointment to the central bank in 2012 by then-president Obama, Powell was a scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Hai Nguyen, a Vietnam War scholar at the Harvard Kennedy school, told Hirsh that he saw history literally repeating itself.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

But their lives and deaths have had a greater impact on my thinking as a scientist, scholar, historian, physician, son, and father than I could possibly have envisioned.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee