What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to firs…

- Eric Liu

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride…

- Eric Liu

True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom Ameri…

- Eric Liu

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

- Eric Liu

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him th…

- Eric Liu

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

- Eric Liu

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from th…

- Eric Liu

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

- Eric Liu

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really…

- Eric Liu