Matthew Omolesky, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Matthew Omolesky
Matthew Omolesky is a human rights lawyer and a researcher in the fields of cultural heritage preservation and law and anthropology. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he has been contributing to The American Spectator since 2006, as well as to publications including Quadrant, Lehrhaus, Europe2020, the European Journal of Archaeology, and Democratiya.
by | Mar 5, 2024

It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his home and studio on Moscow’s leafy Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane to spend the summer sketching and painting amid the endless expanse…

by | Feb 20, 2024

I The Hall of the Order of St. Catherine is the most intimate of the five staterooms within the forbidding walls of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Lacking the martial character of the Hall of the Order of St. George, and…

by | Feb 10, 2024

How far Lord Minamoto no Muneyuki had fallen. His grandfather was the former Emperor Kōkō, and his father the Imperial Prince Koretada, yet in the year 894 A.D. Muneyuki found himself reduced to commoner status by his uncle, the reigning Emperor…

by | Jan 27, 2024

Imagine my surprise upon learning, contrary to popular belief and received opinion, that the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle never existed. The vast Corpus Aristotelicum, including the Metaphysics, the Politics, the Poetics, and the Nicomachean Ethics — all medieval forgeries. Aristotle’s…

by | Dec 29, 2023

The gray mantle of evening had finally shrouded the light of a balmy midsummer’s day, and the good citizens of Doylestown, Pennsylvania were busy trimming their lamps and preparing their beds for the night when all of a sudden news…

by | Dec 1, 2023

Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter By Gary Saul Morson (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 512 pages, $38) Four Bolsheviks have gone on a picnic, and as they enjoy…

by | Nov 21, 2023

The following account contains graphic descriptions of the deaths of victims of the Cultural Revolution in China. La desvergüenza con que el revolucionario mata espanta más que sus matanzas. (The shamelessness with which the revolutionary kills is more frightening than…

by | Oct 20, 2023

Borys Tymofiyovych Romantschenko was born in 1926 to a farming family living in Bondari, a modest village in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast, and it was there, amidst the wide fields, the meandering rivers, and the open heavens of picturesque Sumshchyna that…

by | Oct 16, 2023

Los países de literatura indigente tienen historia desabrida.  [Countries with an impoverished literature have an insipid history.]  — Nicolás Gómez Dávila It has become something of an autumn tradition. The leaves change their verdant hues, mothballed sweaters come out of…

by | Oct 2, 2023

Fifteen days into Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministers of the two warring countries met in the Turkish resort town of Antalya, where they would discuss potential resolutions to what was already the largest European conflict since 1945….

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