Society
21/07/2016 - 12:58
The only entity that bothered to bring up questions of ethics in the early 1990s was the church, the only carrier of non-authoritarian... →
01/07/2016 - 14:47
His predictions about the consequences to culture, the family, government and the economy were remarkably accurate. He foresaw the... →
24/04/2016 - 13:17
The American journalist Howard W. French describes how Africa has become “China’s second continent,” as more than a million new Chinese... →
27/03/2016 - 16:47
One of the worst descriptions to be applied to a person nowadays is “professional politician.” The beneficiaries of this state of mind are... →
06/02/2016 - 16:39
As Malach sees it, young Haredi men are no longer tracked into a life of yeshiva learning but now have two real options in front of them,... →
06/02/2016 - 16:05
The dichotomy between the new and the familiar in contemporary Russia can be broken down into a handful of contradictions that neither... →
07/12/2015 - 18:38
Berlin immigrated to the U.S. at age 5. His family fled Russia to escape a wave of murderous pogroms directed at Jews. His mother often... →
25/08/2015 - 14:08
This theory has strengths and weaknesses. It rightly emphasises the importance of domestic factors in the way that Russia formulates and... →
31/07/2015 - 14:06
Not surprisingly, this has proved controversial. Human sexuality and reproduction are matters of biology, but they’re much more than that,... →
22/03/2015 - 13:35
And, third, the humanities and social sciences have not done enough to stimulate interest in their disciplines. It took legislation at the... →
02/01/2015 - 13:42
There is also renewed instability on the periphery of Europe. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia appears to have given up on the... →
18/11/2014 - 12:40
Prologue
My abiding impression of the Soviet Union during my first two postings to the British Embassy in Moscow, between 1964 and 1966,... →