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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.
Among the Intellectualoids
Progressive Dissolution: Byung-Chul Han on the Danger of the Digital Order
by | Aug 5, 2022

When tears flow, they wipe them with a handkerchief, When blood flows, they hurry with their sponges, But when the…
Asia
Can South Korea and Japan Overcome Their Divisions?
by | Jul 26, 2022

Few publicly displayed artistic masterpieces languish in more profound obscurity than “Rakuchū rakugai-zu,” or “Scenes in and around the Capital,”…
Arts and Letters
The Delicate Magic of Life: Rediscovering the Etruscans
by | Jun 17, 2022

Weit offen die Totenkammern sind Und schön bemalt vom Sonnenschein… Wide open are the chambers of the dead And beautifully…

In Print Spring 2022
The Theft of a Nation: Ukraine’s Fight for Existence
by | May 27, 2022

Few might have realized it at the time, but the year 1845 was significant, indeed seminal, in the history of…

Arts and Letters
The Ally of Executioners: Pushkin, Brodsky, and the Deep Roots of Russian Chauvinism
by | May 13, 2022

October 30, 1992. The dusk of evening has fallen over the San Francisco peninsula, and a modest crowd is filing…

Cultural Depravity
The Ukrainian Dancers: Cultural Genocide, Cancel Culture, and the Fight to Preserve Ukrainian Identity
by | Apr 15, 2022

I It is July 1, 1899, and Julie Manet is navigating the crooked streets and alleys of Paris’ disreputably bohemian…

Cultural Depravity
Inhuman Land: Aleksandr Radishchev, Józef Czapski, and the Search for the Other Russia
by | Apr 8, 2022

Above the bank of the Dniepr the midnight cross of St Vladimir thrust itself above the sinful, bloodstained, snowbound earth…

Ukraine Under Assault
The Unseeing Years: Russia’s Ethnic Cleansing of Crimea
by | Mar 15, 2022

It was late in the evening of May 24, 2014, and the Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov was taking a stroll…

Ukraine Under Assault
There Is Still Time to Safeguard the Heritage of Ukraine
by | Mar 2, 2022

Two antiquarian books lie before me. The first is a copy of George Wharton Edwards’ Vanished Halls & Cathedrals of…

Cultural Decline
Somalia and the Failures of Foreign Policy Idealism
by | Feb 27, 2022

Before the advent of Islam, Somalia was a land of demons and giants. There were no mosques back then, no…

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