Society & Philosophy

Vladimir Golstein09.12.2025

So there are pragmatic political systems, when politicians are not restrained by sloppily or sophisticatedly concocted ideology. Such was the capitalism of the laissez-faire period, or today’s China, Russia and even Trumpism. And there are ideologically driven political systems. Nazism, Soviet Socialism and now Wokism that took over United States and EU. Since I did’t […]

Vladimir Morozov07.12.2025

Previous Article: Economics and Chrematistics Its conflict with the economic doctrine of Christianity before its split into Orthodoxy and Catholicism. The art of “making money” To understand why the world ultimately arrived at the financial capitalism of the last third of the 20th century and the first third of the 21st century, and why “monetary civilization,” […]

Vladimir Morozov30.11.2025

How Ethics and Approaches to Economic Management Influence Crises. To better understand the underlying causes of modern economic crises, let’s turn to Aristotle, the renowned Greek philosopher of the 4th century BC. Aristotle defined two entities in the socioeconomic relationships of citizens in society. One entity is economics, which is a system whose purpose is […]

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 […]

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The Tale of the Two Systems

The Ethics of Economics as Chrematistics

Economics and Chrematistics

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

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

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