F ilm footage of Muhammad Ali is used to sell everything from soft drinks to cars. The image we are spoon-fed is the improbably charismatic boxer, dancing in the ring and shouting “I am the greatest.” The present Muhammad Ali is also a very public figure, despite his near total inability to move or…
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Our new issue, “ Between the Risings ,” is out now. To celebrate its release, international subscriptions are $25 off , and limited prints of our Easter 1916 cover are available . Z aha Hadid, a pioneering architect and the first female recipient of the Pritzker Prize, died in March at the age of…
Inside Putin's Russia by Andrew Jack Granta, 350 pp, £20.00, February 2004, ISBN 1 86207 640 5 Putin's Progress by Peter Truscott Simon and Schuster, 370 pp, £17.99, March 2004, ISBN 0 7432 4005 7 Putin, Russia's Choice by Richard Sakwa Taylor and Francis, 307 pp, £15.99, February 2004, ISBN 0 415…
Фото со страницы Марка Солонина в Facebook 5 мая в Таллиннском Доме писателей состоялась публичная лекция независимого военного историка Марка Солонина «К каким войнам готовился Сталин?» Многое выглядело довольно необычным. Историк выступал по-русски, но его вполне понимали и задавали много вопросов…
Фото Reuters/Scanpix В середине мая Финляндский институт международных отношений выпустил фундаментальный 320-страничный доклад «Туман фальши» («Fog of Falsehood»), посвященный исследованию российских пропагандистских стратегий, связанных с войной на Украине. Авторы-составители доклада, финский…
Фото Sputnik/Scanpix Последний раз попытку показать дочке День Победы я предпринял года четыре назад, и уже тогда это был ад. Вход на Красную площадь только через металлоискатели и досмотр сумок. Перекрытое метро. Перекрытые переходы. Перекрытые улицы. Перекрытое все. Сплошные загоны из ограждений.…
Buy Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven Allen Lane, 429 pp, £25.00, May 2015, ISBN 978 1 84614 381 6 Buy Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire by Joshua Sanborn Oxford, 304 pp, £18.99, October 2015, ISBN 978 0 19…
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess and where do we go from here? Below is a review written by sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen of Andreas Malm's latest book, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and…
Last fall, a friend who went to see The Martian in theaters reported back with the following anecdote. Seated nearby was a woman who, during the credits, leaned over and whispered to her companion, “You know, this movie is based on a true story.” It would be easy to feel superior to this misinformed…
C ycling one morning over the East Bay Hills, Professor Dacher Keltner had a near-death experience. “I was riding my bike to school,” he recalls, “and I came to a four-way intersection. I had the right of way, and this black Mercedes just barrelled through.” With two feet to spare before impact, the…
Russia 2010 by Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson Random House, 302 pp, $32.00, October 1993, ISBN 0 679 42995 6 What About the workers: Workers and the Transition to Capitalism in Russia by Simon Clarke Verso, 248 pp, £34.95, September 1993, ISBN 0 86091 650 2 After the Soviet Union: From Empire to…
Buy Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History by Catherine Merridale Penguin, 528 pp, £10.99, May 2014, ISBN 978 0 14 103235 1 In 2007 France’s leading Slavist, Georges Nivat, following the example of Pierre Nora’s Lieux de mémoire , published a similar survey of Russia, Les Sites de la…
Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner by Patrick Barclay Orion, 210 pp, £14.99, September 2005, ISBN 0 7528 7333 4 In the United States, there has been a lot of serious academic research – and some not so serious – into the curious phenomenon of the Hot Hand. In all sports, there are moments when an…
Buy Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia by Thane Gustafson Harvard, 662 pp, £20.95, November 2012, ISBN 978 0 674 06647 2 There is no shortage of turning points in Russia’s 20th-century history, from the October Revolution of 1917 to the German defeat at Stalingrad in February…
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Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia by Isabel de Madariaga Yale, 484 pp, £25.00, July 2005, ISBN 0 300 09757 3 Like a single-column photograph in a newspaper, the portrait of Tsar Ivan IV on the dust jacket of Isabel de Madariaga’s book has been cropped down to the essential features: the…
Newsweek In 1950, t he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that “race” is not a biological reality but a myth. This was a summary of the findings of an international panel of…
Buy Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service Macmillan, 600 pp, £9.99, April 2010, ISBN 978 0 330 43969 5 Buy Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand Patenaude Faber, 472 pp, £9.99, March 2010, ISBN 978 0 571 22876 8 When Isaac Deutscher was writing his great three-volume…
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-21 by Isaac Deutscher Verso, 497 pp, £15.00, December 2003, ISBN 1 85984 441 3 The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-29 by Isaac Deutscher Verso, 444 pp, £15.00, December 2003, ISBN 1 85984 446 4 The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-40 by Isaac Deutscher Verso, 512 pp,…
Спустя 14 лет после начала пенсионной реформы государство, похоже, начинает ее заново. В конце апреля появились сразу две концепции реформирования пенсионной системы. Одна от Минфина, другая от Минэкономразвития. Причем они существенно противоречат друг другу, хотя обе составлены представителями так…
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock HarperCollins, 1187 pp, £20.00, June 1991, ISBN 0 00 215494 3 Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest Weidenfeld, 346 pp, £18.99, September 1991, ISBN 0 297 81194 0 ‘About Hitler I can’t think of anything to say,’ thus Karl Kraus in a famous…
SOME SCHOLARS BELIEVE THAT BOREDOM is a modern condition — a byproduct of the standardized “clock time” ushered in by industrial capitalism, starting in the 18th century. Paradoxically, time-use studies in recent decades find increased boredom in leisure activities, a finding akin to the ubiquitous…
The Road to Berlin: Stalin’s War with Germany by John Erickson Weidenfeld, 877 pp, £20.00, November 1983, ISBN 0 297 77238 4 The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin’s War with Germany by John Erickson Weidenfeld, 594 pp, £10.00, November 1983, ISBN 0 297 78350 5 Between 22 June 1941 and 9 May 1945 the Red…
Бывший глава антидопинговой лаборатории в Москве Григорий Родченков, бежавший в США и добивающийся там статуса политического беженца, в интервью The New York Times рассказал, что десятки российских спортсменов на зимних Олимпийских играх 2014 года в Сочи принимали допинг. Причем рассказал это в…
Песня Джамалы была очень проникновенной. О реальной боли человека и целого народа, хотя проблема сталинской депортации крымских татар из Крыма в советскую Среднюю Азию в 1944 году под надуманным предлогом пособничества Гитлеру не слишком известна Европе. В тексте песни «1944» нет прямых отсылов к…
Par kleitām, seksu, mīlestību, dusmām un varu. Savulaik stiprās sievietes lomu rakstniece Inga Gaile negribēja, tomēr tagad kļuvusi par galveno Latvijas feministi un uzsver – visi sūdi atkāpjas, ja ir mīlestība. Inga Gaile ir kļuvusi par, iespējams, galveno Latvijas feministi. Kaņepes Kultūras…
The United States accounts for less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but it consumes about 20 percent of the global energy supply. The average American citizen uses nearly two times as much fossil fuel as a person living in Great Britain. Americans love cars and big homes and hate public…
“One of the great ironies in modern America,” writes Mehrsa Baradaran in her 2015 book How the Other Half Banks , “is that the less money you have, the more you pay to use it.” Baradaran, an associate professor at the University of Georgia’s law school, was referring to the outrageously high fees…
Beijing's Summer Palace, in winter. (David Gray/Reuters) In June 1840, following the breakdown in negotiations with the Qing Dynasty over the trade of opium on Chinese territory, a large British military force captured the city of Canton (now Guangzhou) before marching up the coastline and entering…
Democracies end when they are too democratic. And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny. Illustration by Zohar Lazar As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato’s Republic . It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I…
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael V. Hayden 1. When Michael Hayden was a young air force officer in the 1980s, the military stationed him as an intelligence attaché in Bulgaria. There, the man who would rise to the top of the American intelligence community…
Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump and a poster advertising his book, Think Big and Kick Ass , New York City, October 16, 2007 Ever since he entered the presidential race, Donald Trump has been upsetting assumptions. And now the overarching question is whether his approach to landing the…
Our new issue, “ Between the Risings ,” is out now. To celebrate its release, international subscriptions are $25 off , and limited prints of our Easter 1916 cover are available . A ir raid sirens screamed as bombers from the United States and the United Kingdom launched missile strikes on Baghdad.…
Religious Fundamentalism Fundamentalism has become a subject of general interest, and scholars have presented various reasons for its recent spread: some point to poverty and lack of education, while others to certain religious features that engender radical tendencies. According to French Islam…
Most of us think it’s a bad thing to die. I certainly don’t want to die any time soon, and you probably don’t either. There are, of course, exceptions. Some people actively want to die. They might be unbearably lonely, or in chronic pain, or gradually sliding into senile dementia that will destroy…
All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas Field Early Novels and Stories by James Baldwin, edited by Toni Morrison Collected Essays by James Baldwin, edited by Toni Morrison Later Novels by James Baldwin, edited by Darryl Pinckney The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected…
In July 1656, the 23-year-old Bento de Spinoza was excommunicated from the Portuguese-Jewish congregation of Amsterdam. It was the harshest punishment of herem (ban) ever issued by that community. The extant document, a lengthy and vitriolic diatribe, refers to the young man’s ‘abominable heresies’…
Our new issue, “ Between the Risings ,” is out now. To celebrate its release, international subscriptions are $25 off , and limited prints of our Easter 1916 cover are available . N ine years after the onset of the international financial crisis, its effects are still with us. These days observers…
If there’s a real third way in American politics—a genuinely viable means of mobilizing millions of voters into a new political party, rather than a cynical branding strategy for pro-business policies—we learned a lot about what it would look like over the past year. The successes of the Bernie…
Photo: Gluekit and Photos by AMC Walter White goes free. Walter White redeems himself. Walter White dies of cancer. Walter White gets buried in the desert and eaten alive by ants. Walter White goes to the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks and has coffee and pie with Special Agent Dale Cooper. One of these…
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