What’s happened during the last thirty years is that Americans stopped worrying about the bomb. They used to duck under school desks, they used to build and hide in shelters, they used to worry about every frown on the face of Russian leaders, but then it stopped.

Gordon Hahn, in this fascinating and wide-ranging overview, unearths aspects of Russian philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev’s thought that have heretofore received little notice in the West: for example, Berdyaev’s belief in the indivisible unity of Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia.

Looking at what is happening daily, one wonders if Professor Ageev and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, who gave the world only 90 seconds to the symbolic doomsday midnight were too optimistic…

«Fashion is an opportunity to protect oneself from everyday life.» — Bill Cunningham

The new warmth between Russia and China is just the latest American fumble as we slouch into a new cold war.

Russia has issued a warning to the West over the planned delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Belgium this year.

The West seems committed to doubling down on the war, despite more signs Russia is willing to talk

Jeffrey Sachs with probably the smartest and most accurate assessment of the Ukraine war, and American foreign policy more broadly, ever caught on tape.

«When I was young, I wanted to change the world…. Now I realize that the only thing I can change is myself.» — Israel Salanter

On the day Americans remember their war dead, a look at how compensating for civilian deaths caused by the U.S. military — in massacres by ground troops, air strikes and even, nuclear attacks — has never been a serious priority, writes Nick Turse.