Names and persons
19/04/2016 - 12:15
For a scholar of nationalism, it is surprisingly difficult to say what nation Benedict Anderson belonged to. Anderson was a peripatetic... →
27/03/2016 - 15:21
One seminal moment in Silicon Valley history occurred in 1985, as Intel lingered in what Andy Grove — the first employee of its founders,... →
23/02/2016 - 14:18
So how did this ingenious academic manage it?
Well, intellectual though he was, with a personal library of some 50,000 books, Eco didn’t... →
28/01/2016 - 19:30
Fyodor Lukyanov, Academic director of the Valdai Discussion Club Foundation.
The death of Georgy Ilyich Mirsky is an irreparable loss. We... →
25/10/2015 - 15:53
Whether or not Napoleon was great, the question remains whether any leader could merit that description. And if so, who? There seem to be... →
02/09/2015 - 12:04
Oliver Sacks, the eminent neurologist and writer garlanded as the “poet laureate of medicine”, has died at his home in New York City. He... →
13/07/2015 - 22:08
Who better to discuss the latest flare-up in relations over Ukraine? Alarmingly, given his long observation of the interplay between Russia... →
27/06/2015 - 13:33
In March 1999, Mr Primakov attempted to prevent Nato strikes against Yugoslavia. He famously ordered his pilot to turn around midway across... →
03/06/2015 - 18:42
“John’s remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians, economists, and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant,... →
07/05/2015 - 23:16
Я плохо разбирался в тех тонкостях генетики, которые при мне часто обсуждались. Меня интересовали военные дела Рапопорта. На вопросы он,... →
09/12/2014 - 14:12
During the Cold War, the Reichstag—its cupola wrecked, its walls bullet-pocked—was an abandoned relic in the no man’s land of central... →
15/11/2014 - 14:52
In the LHC, which is awaiting relaunch with twice the power in spring next year, elementary particles are smashed together at close to the... →