Society & Philosophy

Robert Reich05.03.2026

Trump is actively destroying it. “We are just getting started,” Trump’s secretary of “war,” Pete Hegseth, said yesterday, adding that the attacks on Iran will escalate, with “death and destruction all day long.” So far more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in Iran, according to human rights monitors, including 180 children, most of them […]

Robert Reich26.02.2026

What I tell parents of abnormally short children. I’m very short. At my zenith I was 4 feet, 11 inches. From time to time, worried parents of abnormally short children phone or email me seeking reassurance. I tell them that if they or their children are desperate, they can resort to limb-lengthening surgeries, growth hormone […]

Vyacheslav Golovkov25.02.2026

The world has gone crazy… but that’s not news, everyone knows that. The news is that we’re paying for this madness with a credit card and feeling almost happy about it. Have you ever noticed: people have stopped looking at each other. On the subway, in cafes, in line at the doctor’s—screens are everywhere. We […]

Vladimir Golstein13.02.2026

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How Woke Liberals Learned to Love Nazi Collaborators and Murderers. One the surface of it, it all looks strange if not shocking. The most progressive of the Americans and consequently of the western world, providing moral and financial support to the ultra-nationalist thugs who idolize mass murderers of the Bandera type. They don’t idolize Dr. […]

Vladimir Golstein13.01.2026

Long time ago I formulated a principle that I still follow: the opposite of crap, is not necessarily a candy, but most likely, a stinking crap, or total crap, or any other crap. Since then, I realized that it is just a version of an old Russian proverb, “horseradish is not sweeter than black radish.” […]

Serg Levine09.01.2026

Among the eternal questions of humanity, such as “Who is to blame?”, “What is to be done?” and “Is there life on Mars?”, the question “What is the meaning of life?” occupies a special place. Everyone faces this existential problem. Some sooner, some later. You can live for half a century without ever considering the […]

Vladimir Morozov05.01.2026

Why Western civilization is not our path. Three days before New Year’s 1909, the most powerful earthquake in European history, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, almost completely destroyed several Italian cities, including Messina, claiming the lives of nearly 200,000 people. The first to come to the aid of the survivors were Russian sailors from […]

Vladimir Morozov31.12.2025

As we look back on the outgoing and challenging year of 2025, I’d like to share my observations on how our people perceive the current situation. Not the self-appointed comprador elite of the 1990s, no, but those very people (I’ve had the opportunity to speak with various people), who are the bearers of those traditional […]

Vladimir Golstein19.12.2025

Dostoevsky’s Demons/Possessed is usually viewed as the satire of Russian nihilists of the 1860s, and their random acts of violence, including the murder of the student, named Ivanov, in Moscow. But Dostoevsky sets his novel not in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but in a small provincial town, and besides individual crimes and a set of […]

Vladimir Golstein16.12.2025

In the sixties, people were worrying about subliminal messages used for brainwashing. Fine, one can talk about it or write some journalistic exposes. But I suspect, that type of messaging requires some extra deliberation and sophistication, and therefore practiced less frequently than we imagine. What we have instead, and something much easier to accomplish, is not […]

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The Moral Basis of Civilization

Heightism

“AI Won’t Take Over the World Unless We Give It to It”

Liberals and Nazi Collaborators

Binary Thinking, Politics, and Dialectics

In Search of Ikigai

Europeans Won’t Understand Us

Happy New Year!

When Societies Go Mad… Or Become Possessed

A Triggered Society

Russian Strongmen

Gold Is Moving Back Into the Settlement System

Markus Wolf and the Intelligence War of the Cold War

The Man Who Survived Both Atomic Bombings: Tsutomu Yamaguchi