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By Elena Clavarino at Air Mail: With a Trump presidential victory looking surer by the day, U.S. citizens are buying into golden-visa programs—immigration schemes where individuals can obtain residency in
Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in the West after his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974, would enthusiastically endorse its
Continue readingSolzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
Victoria Gierok at Project Syndicate: Twenty-five years ago, the euro was introduced, in virtual form, as the common currency of the eurozone, which consisted of 11 countries. Banknotes and coins
7 select cartoons of interest this week:
If I should ever forget you,this is my love note to you You were lovedYou were somebody’s loverYou were lovingYou held parts of all the women you loved,somewhere deep in
by Ian Bremmer in Time Magazine: With so many elections in big countries this year, it’s a good time to look at how the politics of democracies are shifting. But
Continue readingWhy Voters Everywhere Are Fed Up With Incumbents
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address at Harvard University in 8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation audio overlay; and English subtitles.} PLEASE NOTE: THERE DOES NOT EXIST A VIDEO WITH ONLY
Continue readingAleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Address (1978)
by Rami Gabriel at Aeon Magazine: In recent years, psychology has come under attack as a racist tool of Western thought. No one can deny that it has been used
By Ramin Skibba at Undark: On April 11, a small company called Graphyte began pumping out beige bricks, somewhat the consistency of particle board, from its new plant in Pine
By Sven Bilén at Singularity Hub: When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot
when lilies in pond diesnakes move inwhen snakes swirl outrats move inthe house withrodents micesants roachesdoo dats… grasshopper findsgreener pastureplaying fieldnot so green Irshad Salim; July 2024
Assal Rad at Zeteo: When a poll in March showed that only about half of Americans could correctly answer that more Palestinians had been killed in the war on Gaza
Continue reading“I Fixed the New York Times’ Pro-Israel Headlines on Gaza”