Category: Politics
Bangladesh: “The Quota Movement is Simply the Tip of the Iceberg”
Shahidul Alam at New Age/Northeast Bylines: It would be a mistake to see this as…
Solzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in…
The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors
Victoria Gierok at Project Syndicate: Twenty-five years ago, the euro was introduced, in virtual form,…
Why Voters Everywhere Are Fed Up With Incumbents
by Ian Bremmer in Time Magazine: With so many elections in big countries this year,…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Address (1978)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address at Harvard University in 8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation…
“I Fixed the New York Times’ Pro-Israel Headlines on Gaza”
Assal Rad at Zeteo: When a poll in March showed that only about half of…
How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left…
Pakistan: Warping its Democracy
by Rashid Husain Syed at Globe and Mail: Pakistan, the nuclear-armed country that is the…
Brothers in Arms or Just Good Friends?
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to…
Inside Project 2025
James Goodwin in the Boston Review: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump…
One Memorable Speech Can Turn Around a Faltering Campaign − How Nixon Did it With His ‘Checkers’ Talk
W. Joseph Campbell at The Conversation: Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political…
Are We Living in ‘Late Soviet America’?
From The Free Press: A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles,…