Young Jewish Man: "Is there a proper blessing for the Czar?" Rabbi: "A blessing for the Czar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Czar… far away from us!" Fiddler on the Roof As Enoch Powell noted, "The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable ...
William Goldman's fantasy tale The Princess Bride made famous the saying “never get involved in a land war in Asia” (it was purportedly advice General Douglas MacArthur gave to President John F. Kennedy regarding Vietnam). But historically the costs of a land war in Europe have been ...
With murky foreign affairs much in the news, it’s worth trying to figure out how to think about the notion of “false flag” operations"would, say, a counterterrorism agency stage an act of terrorism to make its political enemies look bad or perhaps just to drum up support for ...
While American geopolitical thought tends to divide the world up morally into the Democratic (whoever is on our side) and the Evil (vice-versa), Russians tend to strategize geographically in terms of Land (Mother Russia) v. Sea (those deplorable Atlanticists). This dichotomy leads to endless ...
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For some time now, I had been concerned that the growing urge of American elites toward bear-baiting"what I call World War G for its bizarre premise of resurrecting the Cold War over, of all things, gay marriage"was a bad habit. But as it turned out in Kiev, a street battle attracts a ...
Similarities and differences between Russian and American conservatism"especially in regard to the topic of the moment, Ukraine"can be observed in the thought of Russian geopolitical theorist Aleksandr Dugin, director of the Center for Conservative Studies at Moscow State University. ...
On this 100th anniversary of the Great War, the rise of anti-Russian jingoism in the American media is apparent to both the right and the left. In The Nation, NYU Russian Studies professor Stephen F. Cohen lamented about the press’s run-up to the Sochi Winter Games: American media on Russia ...
I was wondering why Russia chose to hold its Winter Olympics in the Black Sea beach resort of Sochi, which is almost as far south as you can get in that notoriously northern land. And that got me thinking about borders in general. African governments are always complaining that they inherited ...
With the 100th anniversary of World War I upcoming and old enmities between America and Russia resurging in contemporary form"for example, Glenn Beck recently said, “I will stand with GLAAD against...hetero-fascism” in Russia"due to the approach of that gayest of sporting ...
Amy Chua, the Chinese Mom America Loves to Hate, follows up her 2011 bestseller The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother with a new book coauthored with her more laid-back husband and fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld: The Triple Package: Why Groups Rise and Fall in America. Their essential ...
