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Russia, America, and the Courage to Converse

Amidst the firestorm of U.S.-Russia recriminations and closings of diplomatic facilities this past September, and on the heels of an intense, year-long American campaign to demonize all things Russian, a project calling itself the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy…

President Trump’s ‘Friends’ in Saudi Arabia

In the long arc of history, while regimes come and go, civilizations endure. Bet on the former against the latter, and you’re taking one helluva gamble. The House of Saud is a regime, a dynastic enterprise masquerading as a nation-state.…

Brightening Up January

January can be a dark and depressing month. As we move our Christmas trees to the curb and pack up glistening ornaments, the sparkle and enchantment of December slowly disappears before us. The darkness and cold are no longer transformed…

Pitirim Sorokin Revisited

For some time now, once-sacrosanct civil rules in America and throughout the West have been deteriorating. We have elected a showman as president who exudes the mad confidence of a late Roman emperor. Lady Gaga wows an audience of 117…

What Robert Mueller might want to ask Steve Bannon

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators are negotiating a sit-down interview with President Trump — but first, they’re talking to Steve Bannon. The former White House chief strategist reportedly planned to sit down with Mueller’s team sometime before the end of…