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Klim Zhukov27.09.2026

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, a small town in Kent, England, into a family that seemed to have little connection to the literary world. His father was a professional cricket player who also ran a small china shop. His mother had worked as a domestic servant. “Bertie,” as he was known […]

Yuri Chekalin25.09.2026

A smartphone battery drops to 5 percent, and suddenly the search for a charger feels urgent. You leave home without your phone and experience the peculiar sensation that something important is missing. A subway enters a dead zone, messages stop arriving, and you reach for the device anyway. For some people, these moments are merely […]

Victor Aliyev24.09.2026

Today, the word charisma is everywhere. We use it for anyone who knows how to command a television camera, electrify a crowd, or win an election. But in classical sociology, charisma means something far more powerful than charm—and far more dangerous than a magnetic personality. Charisma is a bond between a leader and his followers. […]

Kamil Askerkhanov23.09.2026

As America’s midterm elections draw closer, the familiar numbers game is already underway. There is no point denying what the polls say: several national surveys do, in fact, show Democrats with an advantage. But the national generic ballot is not an election result. The House is decided across 435 individual congressional districts. The Senate is […]

Robert Reich22.09.2026

The central issue isn’t which nation will dominate AI. It’s whether we will both maintain human control over it. China and the United States are now competing for AI dominance. But what’s needed is a new mind-set about the meaning of “security” in the emerging world of AI — where the central question should not […]

Robert Reich21.09.2026

Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power? Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon keynoted a Washington conference to demand a stop to AI, its data centers, and the risks AI poses to jobs and even to the human species. Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs […]

Vladimir Golstein21.09.2026

People fixated on either Israel or Gazan Palestinians can bemoan or gloat over it as much as they want. I am sure, the film offers a lot for each side to get itself worked up into a frenzy. But what remains heavily under-discussed is the elephant in the room. And by this elephant I mean […]

Yuri Chekalin19.09.2026

At 1:40 in the morning, the March rain turned the neon of Kabukicho outside my window into smeared, dirty streaks of color. She came in barefoot. I noticed her feet before I noticed her face. The soles were scraped raw. Her right knee was streaked with soot and dried blood. A wet trail followed her […]

Yuri Chekalin19.09.2026

Japanese schoolchildren are spending more time with screens than ever before. But the tablet is only one piece of a much larger story—a story about how modern childhood may be changing the human eye. When Digital Childhood Changes the Eye Imagine an ordinary Japanese schoolchild. A smartphone on the way to school. Several hours of […]

Andrey Vedyaev17.09.2026

Colonel Alexei Nikolayevich Botyan did not earn the nickname “Whirlwind” by accident. He was one of the principal real-life models for the legendary “Major Whirlwind,” the Soviet intelligence officer credited with saving the Polish city of Kraków from destruction by the retreating Germans. We discussed those events with him more than once, and each time […]

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Herbert Wells at 160: The Man Who Imagined the 20th Century

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Martin Luther is the Charismatic Leader of the Printing Age

America’s Election Talk