Some character from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, perhaps? Can't figure out which, though.

Richard Hanania was never a belligerent asshole to Ganz, more of a snivelling suckup trying to get him to overlook his ostensibly past white supremacist positions, but the contempt is still equally valid.

The really dystopian future comes when countries can't import any more labor, because everywhere else has gone through the demographic transition, and the final generations have to figure out what to do with the mass of elderly they can't afford to care for.

I think Zuckerberg might also have hired a stylist to make him look obnoxious in that specific way, but it's much harder to tell.

How do they explain all the kinslaying, the burning of the ships, the imprisonment/attempted rape and murder of Luthien, the way their attempts to defeat Morgoth always fail because of their arrogance alienating those they need most?

Dressage can tap into wealth/class porn and being all about rigid discipline has all sorts of angles an author could play with. Maybe something like dice stacking or Rubik's cube solving?

No, his argument is the opposite, that on most issues (other than Israel, which he acknowledges), donors are to the left of most democratic voters (but to the right of activists), much less the general public. His article on this is paywalled but the link is a good summary.

Sadly even progressive writers like 1920s JK Rowling could not escape all the prejudices of their era.

Interesting move to focus the moral analysis on the student's actions as if that's the relevant factor

I know, I used it a lot. Nobody else did. Place was a dead theater walking for years before they finally sold it off.

Unfortunately nobody ever went there, despite excellent transit access by ABQ standards. Parking was a pain and that's enough to kill a theatre here. I loved this theatre but not enough other people did.

He also went to Egypt and noticed the Pharaoh was attracted to his wife, so he pretended she was his sister then sold her to the Pharaoh as a concubine.