Society & Philosophy

Yuri Chekalin23.10.2025

Shinto has no founder, no doctrine, no commandments, no idols, and no organization. What it does have are ambiguous characteristics like sympathy and silent experience. This is the very reason why it has been often considered a non-religion by Japanese scholars as well as foreign intellectuals. Japan’s unique historical circumstances and cultural background explain the […]

Yuri Chekalin12.09.2025

A peculiar form of society was created in Japan after World War II. The birth of such a secular, materialistic, and atheistic society perhaps cannot be found in any other age and place in history. It is said that most Japanese, when asked for their religious status in filling out an application form for a […]

Yuri Chekalin20.08.2025

“We live in a city of brotherly love, We are remembered as long as we disturb others…” Nautilus Pompilius “WELFER is a colloquial name for social benefits that are part of the system of assistance to the poorest categories of citizens. Welfare programs cover individuals and families who, for one reason or another, do not […]

Yuri Chekalin25.06.2025

In 2006, the book Makeinu no toboe “Howl of an Abandoned Dog” became a bestseller in Japan. The author, Junko Sakai, called single women over 30 “abandoned dogs” (負け犬, makeinu). But if you think this is an insult, then no — she herself belonged to this category and, on the contrary, finally found a “normal” […]

Kirill Benediktov28.05.2025

The Russian word “Politburo” has become firmly established in the modern political language of the United States. And we have Joe Robinette Biden, the 46th president of the country, to thank for this. The recently published and already bestselling book “Original Sin: The Decline of President Biden, His Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Decision to Run […]

Robert Reich11.03.2025

Friends, from time to time I burden you with some personal stuff, based on my belief that our values begin with who we are and where we came from. So today I want to get very personal and tell you why I’m so short — a condition that led to lots of bullying and ridicule […]

Yuri Chekalin07.03.2025

“The streams of the receding river…, they are continuous; but they are not the same, the old waters… Bubbles of foam floating in the backwaters…, they will disappear, then they will reconnect anew; but they are not given to stay for long. In this world, people and their dwellings… and they are like bubbles on […]

Vladimir Grigoryan08.10.2024

In Russia, 70 percent of marriages break up. The worst, by the way, are in the Caucasian republics. In purely Muslim Ingushetia, there are two and a half divorces per registration, it seems that everyone there has decided to divorce everyone. Traditional marriage is not in crisis there, but in collapse. In Chechnya and Dagestan, […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky06.07.2024

Personnel is politics. This is the American version of the famous Soviet maxim. The think tank “Third Way” is involved in the project. The center’s task is to select federal functionaries (mainly many hundreds of political appointees) who would correspond to centrist, moderate principles, and would not be political left-liberal activists, of whom there were […]

Oleg Yasinsky19.05.2024

In a world of carefully constructed, cultivated and bred madness, it is quite logical that one of the few decent European politicians, Robert Fico, becomes the victim of an assassination attempt. It is even more logical that the assassin is a mature product of this new variety of society, where mass aggressive flawed ignorance inevitably […]

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The Tragedy of “Not-Having-Any”

Japanese Atheists and Faithless Japanese

City of Brotherly Love

Are You a Slouching Dog or a Losing Dog?

Biden, King of the Forest

Why I’m So Short

The Forgotten People of Japan

The Crisis of Marriage

Centrist Democrats Project for 2025

About Madness

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World