2023-08-31 13:35
This past July, Howard Chua-Eoan wrote on Bloomberg:
In 1931, the Politburo ordered the demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow; it was built by Czar Alexander I to co… Read More
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2023-06-29 12:00
I keep forgetting to post this. I once said that Jordan Peterson had been “completely unprepared” for his 2019 debate with Slavoj Žižek. Why? Because Peterson “kn… Read More
2023-06-29 11:30
Discounted Russian crude oil keeps flowing to India:
“It’s amazing that India is buying at these levels because the summer months – June-July – are the lowest in… Read More
2023-05-14 17:25
The Soviet Union subsidized the economies of some developing nations if they leaned politically towards Moscow and were considered strategically important. Supplying raw materials at discoun… Read More
2023-03-31 22:05
From Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne:
But of all names in the universe he [Tristram’s father] had the most unconquerable aversion for TRISTRAM;—he had the lowest and most… Read More
2023-02-23 13:51
Robert Pinsky reviews a translation of Adam Zagajewski’s poetry in the NYT. Among other things, he says:
The Polish pronunciation and spelling Lvov has been replaced by the Ukraini… Read More
2023-02-23 09:52
A quote from September 2021:
Only two major pollsters, FOM and VTsIOM, are allowed to publish their findings in Russia. Naturally, both are Kremlin-friendly.
Levada Center was declare… Read More
2023-02-14 07:55
Clara Ferreira Marques wrote yesterday in Bloomberg Elements:
Russia’s plan to cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day next month — roughly 5% of its Janua… Read More
2023-01-16 08:01
Two recent tweets (not mine):
Western pundits in thrall to American “dissident” conservatarianism all “independently” share the same opinions on Covid, ecology, U… Read More
2022-12-31 19:08
Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the most senior bishop in the Christian Orthodox world, summed up the Russian church’s political stance in a recent speech:
The Russian Ort… Read More
2022-12-04 10:18
Following up on the Karamazovs, an obvious remark. It is said that Dostoevsky’s portrayal of women was lacking next to his male characters. It is not generally true – The Idiot i… Read More
2022-11-30 21:49
On Hope by Tara Isabella Burton in the Hedgehog Review:
In order to accept our lives as a comedy, we must accept that none of us are the heroes we imagine ourselves to be.
This is the… Read More
2022-10-11 08:46
Alexander Van der Bellen has been re-elected President of Austria. As I wrote in 2016, when he won his first term, Van der Bellen’s ancestors had moved from the Netherlands to Russia i… Read More
2022-10-09 21:08
Commenting on Putin’s “annexation speech” on September 30, Shaun Walker wrote in the Guardian:
Today, he offered an angrier but less coherent denunciation of the west, m… Read More
2022-09-13 10:04
Seven and a half years ago, in 2015, Stratfor released a 10-year forecast that saw Russia falling apart by 2025. When the think tank updated its forecast five years later, it no longer menti… Read More
2022-08-14 17:37
The Guardian‘s Andrew Roth is still (or back) in Moscow. Here’s his latest piece, co-written with Pjotr Sauer:
Countries including Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and the Cz… Read More
2022-07-26 08:53
Mikhail Shishkin, in The Atlantic:
The world is surprised at the quiescence of the Russian people, the lack of opposition to the war. But this has been their survival strategy for generat… Read More
2022-07-22 09:52
Paul Krugman admits that he underestimated the current rate of inflation when assessing the impact of the $1.9-billion “American Rescue Plan” early in 2021. On the other hand, La… Read More
2022-07-20 11:01
A few years ago, I tried listening to Jordan Peterson debating Marxism with Slavoj Žižek. It soon became clear to me that Peterson was completely unprepared: he knew next to nothin… Read More
2022-07-09 14:19
In the New Statesman, Katie Stallard reviews Putin: His Life and Times by Philip Short. Referring to Putin’s tenure as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg under Anatoly Sobchak, the reviewe… Read More
2022-06-29 08:51
Emmanuel Macron reportedly said this to Joe Biden a couple of days ago:
I had a call with MbZ [UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan]… He told me two things. I’m at… Read More
2022-06-26 20:42
I’ve argued that anti-abortionists have a common cause with Big Brother worshipers. The word “surveillance” has already appeared in some news headlines on states’ enf… Read More
2022-06-24 17:52
On abortion, my thoughts aren’t much different now than in 2016:
…[E]nforcing a universal ban on abortion will require a greater degree of governmental interference into the… Read More
2022-06-24 10:54
Last weekend, Bloomberg published Max Hastings‘s long-term view of the Russo-Ukrainian war:
Yet it seems hard to consider Russian President Vladimir Putin as anything other than a f… Read More
2022-06-11 17:52
In Tablet, David Mikics quotes Wallace Stevens and explains:
His grief is that his mother should feed on him, himself and what he saw,In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked… Read More
2022-06-03 09:36
From Timothy Snyder‘s opinion column in The New York Times (May 19, 2022):
A time traveler from the 1930s would have no difficulty identifying the Putin regime as fascist.
The rh… Read More
2022-05-16 07:23
Robert Coalson on Twitter:
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. In 20 years, some Russian demagogue will be explaining to Russians that Putin was a CIA plot aimed at bringi… Read More
2022-05-03 10:05
John Dolan, the author of Pleasant Hell and the creator of Gary Brecher, the War Nerd, once produced an impassioned diatribe against George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens. It is deeply unfa… Read More
2022-04-22 11:44
The Eiffel tower during the Nazi occupation (1941). “Germany wins on all fronts.” Was it winning on all the fronts in 1941? Possibly, but it wouldn’t be for much longer… Read More
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