Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments
Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments
How has the Kremlin traded political reason for lost sentiments? Where did the idea of defending Russians’ “traditional values” come from? What do these values have to do with religious ethics and secular morality? Historian of ideas, Marina Simakova, traces the genesis of the main ideologeme of Putin’s Russia
Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments
Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments
A Brief History of Equality in Russia
A Brief History of Equality in Russia
In his recent book, Thomas Piketty charts the worldwide rise in inequality over the past four decades and explains what could be done about it. What are the dynamics of inequality in today's Russia? Could Piketty's ideas be relevant to it? Our author Arseniy Krasikov answers these questions
A Brief History of Equality in Russia
A Brief History of Equality in Russia
Who remembers? What? In What Way?
Who remembers? What? In What Way?
What is the connection, in the ideology of the state of Israel, between victory and eternity? What is Israeli arrogance and what does it have to do with Zionism? Where does one look for Israelis’ historical memory? Artist Haim Sokol asks hard questions against the background of the conflict in the Near East
Who remembers? What? In What Way?
Who remembers? What? In What Way?
Towards a Left Critique of Indiscriminate Violence
Towards a Left Critique of Indiscriminate Violence
How has the political meaning of resistance come to be devalued? What are the affinities between the artistic critique of capitalism and a fascination with violence? What should be taken into account when advocating for the Palestinian cause? Social researcher Anatoly Kropivnitskyi polemicizes with the grotesque defenders of Islamists
Towards a Left Critique of Indiscriminate Violence
Towards a Left Critique of Indiscriminate Violence
Guns Instead of Butter
Guns Instead of Butter
How much money is the Russian state willing to spend on war at the expense of medicine and education? How will Russian public officials be spending budget money in the coming years? Should pensioners or low-income groups look forward to “giveaways” from Vladimir Putin before the upcoming presidential elections in the spring of 2024? We asked these questions to economists Igor Lipsits, Nikolai Kulbaka, and columnist Nikolai Sukhanov
Guns Instead of Butter
Guns Instead of Butter
A Crucial Political Moment for Europe
A Crucial Political Moment for Europe
Theses of prominent Italian left-wing intellectuals on the war in Ukraine and the fate of European unity
A Crucial Political Moment for Europe
A Crucial Political Moment for Europe