Aug. 15, 2023 — Another day, another cosmic horror courtesy of the so-called “Russian world.” The setting this time is…
I It is Aug. 13, 1944, and the streets of Warsaw are clogged with barricades and mounds of rubble, burn-out…
Each morning we remind ourselves of all the lives that have been lost. In the afternoon, we savor the sun…
On April 9, 2021, the Chinese Cyberspace Administration’s Central Network Information Office Reporting Center for Illegal and Undesirable Information promulgated…
Some four hundred thousand visitors pass through the wrought iron gates of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague each year,…
Испепеляющие годы! Безумья ль в вас, надежды ль весть? От дней войны, от дней свободы — Кровавый отсвет в лицах…
The Savoyard diplomat Joseph de Maistre, writing to his Russian counterpart Prince Pyotr Borisovich Kozlovsky in the autumn of 1815,…
“Manuscripts don’t burn,” or so the devil Woland tells us in Mikhail Bulgakov’s darkly comedic novel The Master and Margarita….
The head of the executed man thought, saw, suffered. And I saw what he saw, understood what he thought, and…
There exists a vast taxonomy of political gaffes, including everything from verbal and Freudian slips to hot-mic fiascos and literal…
