Leo Tolstoy

George Orwell Knew What Made Shakespeare Great

Today, on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and death, it’s worth revisiting George Orwell’s great defense of Shakespeare against Leo Tolstoy

The Christian Realism of Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan’s “A Certain Sense of America” captures the political contradictions and controversies that have characterized the last decade as few other books have

The Anarchism of Julian Assange

Julian Assange’s ideology reveals startling similarities with anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The War through Mosfilm’s Eyes

The Mosfilm war movies collection greatly enhances understanding of the political psychology of contemporary Russian external aggression, especially the otherwise almost inexplicable official framing of the Ukrainian invasion