Review & Opinion

Vladimir Golstein18.05.2025

Who Are the Guardians Who Lead us to … Perdition. Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov has this insightful episode. Drunken Fyodor, the father of the Karamazovs, embarks on one of his favorite diatribes against the church. They are dishonest, they trade in superstitions, they exploit the peasants, they make up stories, and they try to shame scoundrels […]

Robert Reich09.04.2025

In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice. Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do. Let me first congratulate the 504 law firms that have thrown their support behind Perkins Coie […]

Natalia Tanshina06.04.2025

The policy of French President Macron, who sometimes recalls the Resistance movement, is in fact completely analogous to the policy of Marshal Petain and those Frenchmen who participated in the war against the USSR! It is characteristic that their mobilization took place under the traditional slogans of the fight against Bolshevism and for a “new […]

Vladimir Grigoryan05.04.2025

You see, I heard this nonsense about the Marshall Plan and the like when they were breaking up the USSR, inspiring Georgia, ruining Ukraine. I have already written about this, but the topic seems to be eternal. The enthusiasts just can’t calm down — they continue to pester, and I can’t find the strength to […]

Robert Reich04.04.2025

In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into its maw while further destroying our public institutions and wrecking what’s left of our civil norms. Yet this week also featured 11 reasons for modest optimism: 1. Wisconsin Supreme Court vote Despite Elon Musk’s hysterical […]

Robert Reich01.04.2025

The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness. But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence of Trump and his regime. Even The Wall Street Journal criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to dismiss “Signalgate” as a hoax, calls Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff “out of his […]

Vladimir Golstein25.03.2025

In his War and Peace, Tolstoy has an amazing image of Napoleon, as the French army is being kicked out of Russia. Tolstoy compares him to a child sitting deep in a horse carriage, who pulls the curtain strings and thinks that these actions direct the horse. For Tolstoy, Napoleon’s invasion had unleashed the forces, […]

Vladimir Golstein22.03.2025

And it is much more that the war between two East European countries. The whole damn thing totally penetrated and perverted the western politics for the last eleven years, counting from 2014 Crimea. Endless propaganda and obfuscation as far as the information about the war was concerned. Endless misrepresentation of what was going on. Endless […]

Vladimir Golstein17.03.2025

Apparently there is an Irish Proverb — a clear take on Roman ‘divide and conquer” — which says to the effect, if two neighbors are fighting, at least one of them was visited by a Brit another day. Of all people, Irish should know. And so should the rest of the world, which hardly has […]

Vladimir Golstein08.03.2025

What exactly is going on? Who is teaching whom? Same idiotic costumes, same rude behavior, same self-righteousness bordering on Chutzpah. Why all these antics during Trump’s address? Yes, Trump is prone to some obnoxious mannerisms. Fine. He obviously has more than that if he came to White House second time around. What exactly is he […]

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“The Road to Perdition”

In Unity, There’s Strength to Confront Trump

Has Macron Forgotten the Fate of Nazi Puppet Petain?

About the Marshall Plan

Additional Small Reasons for Modest Optimism

It Would All Be Comic if Not So Tragic

Naive Zelensky Believes in Europe

Ukraine is Obviously Much More than Ukraine

Facts are Stubborn Thing

Zelensky Redux, or Democrats in Congress

What Was Seized from John Bolton During the Search

A Liberal Approach to Economic Sovereignty

AI is Our Real Future

A Little About Khrushchev