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A Ukrainian fibre-optic drone — copied from Russians.

Michael Magoon suggests that we stop using the term “populism”.

In 1932-33, Soviet collectivization destroyed local farming knowledge and produced a famine that killed somewhere between five and nine million people.

In April 2024, a salvo of cruise missiles destroyed the Trypilska thermal power plant, the largest in the Kyiv region, in under an hour.

Nagoro, a depopulated village in Japan where residents are replaced by dolls.

With the weakening of the trans-Atlantic alliance, the debate over European integration has entered a new phase.

Papal election of 1492 For over a decade, Ada Palmer, a history professor at University of Chicago (and a science-fiction writer!)

Sofia Corradi, a.k.a.

If you want to understand a country, you should pick a similar country that you are already familiar with, research the differences between the two and there you go, you are now an expert.

Jacques Callot, “The Hanging”, from “The Miseries and Misfortunes of War”, 1633 I’d like to tell you a bedtime story.

The travels of Emil the Moose since he entered Czechia in mid-June.

Facade detail from Maison les Hiboux, Brussels.

Ben Landau-Taylor’s article in UnHerd makes a simple argument: simple, easy-to-use military technologies beget democracies.

Famously, a hundred years ago Keynes predicted that by now people would be working just fifteen hours a week.

The discourse on immigration to Europe is dominated by the migrants from Middle East and Africa in countries such as France, Britain or Germany.

Assisted dying in France & Britain Legal support for euthanasia is a moral imperative, but it is rare on the global level.

Dominic Cummings and Jennifer Pahlka are both unhappy about the civil service.

Europe just experienced a heatwave.

The essay “The Sorcerer and His Magic” by Claude Lévi-Strauss, specifically the part about the shaman Quesalid, is of interest to anyone who considers themselves a skeptic or a rationalist.

There’s a story — I'm at a conference and cannot access my library, but I believe it comes from Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss — about an anthropologist who took a member of an Amazonian tribe to New York.

Imagine living in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in early 2000’s: All marshrutka [mini taxi bus] drivers had to have a medical exam every day to make sure they were not drunk and did not have high blood pressure.

EU policy is driven mostly by the member states, so looking at what national leaders say is often more useful than what the Commission, which has every incentive to placate everyone involved, says.