Civil servants are leading the American resistance – with GameStop as a guide As Elon Musk tries to drive them out, federal workers are initiating a short squeeze on the broligarchy The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2025
Patriot by Alexei Navalny review – the man who dared to defy Putin This remarkable memoir by the bold and fearless Russian opposition leader describes an extraordinary life, from a childhood in the shadow of Chornobyl to surviving a novichok attack and his final days in a remote Arctic penal colony The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2024
Freed Putin Critic Recounts 'Miracle' Release In Historic Swap It has been around six weeks since Vladimir Kara-Murza swapped his prison long-johns and rubber flip flops for sharp suits, but the major opponent of the Kremlin says he is still adjusting to reality. International Business Times · Sep 12, 2024
What Differentiates the Political Left and Right? Matt Yglesias and Bryan Caplan offer contrasting theories. But neither fully works. Reason · Apr 14, 2024
Pronouncing Foreigners' Names Some comments on the thread about pronouncing foreign country names (such as Qatar and France) raised the question of how we should pronounce foreign people's names. Here too my answer is: We should follow the English norms, which often depart from the norms in those people's native languages—just like, I… Reason · Nov 29, 2022
Russian artists grapple with the same dilemma as their Soviet forebears – to stay or to go? With few exceptions, most Russian artists who oppose the war have been relegated to releasing songs, posting artwork or publishing articles on social media. The Conversation · Jun 6, 2022
The book that changed me: how a 1970s poetry collection, The Honey of Man, still brings hope in grim times For decades, researchers have investigated what reading affords us, whether “us” means individuals or communities. Their research points to the benefits reading offers in terms of physical and mental health, education, and, perhaps most of all, empathic attunement to other people, and to other times, places, cultures and traditions. The Conversation · Apr 14, 2022