Archive for July, 2008
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
By Sean at 23 July, 2008, 8:48 am
Two references to Russia being the next Nazi Germany in two days. The one from the left came yesterday. Fortunately, Daniel Silva is no intellectual heavy hitter and his Russia paranoia is likely to quietly dissipate into the ether.
Today’s however comes from someone who carries a big intellectual bat. Namely, the ever loving Richard Pipes. [...]
The Many Days and Many Lives of the Gulag
By Sean at 22 July, 2008, 12:03 pm
Steve Barnes, Assistant Professor at George Mason University, has set up a invaluable site called Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. Barnes is an expert in the history of the Gulag. I had the pleasure of hearing paper of his at the “The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-1964” conference at the University College London in [...]
Read More >>Obamamaniacs on Russia
By Sean at 22 July, 2008, 9:01 am
I usually don’t waste my time with babble but Daniel Silva’s “President Obama and a 3 am Phone Call about Russia” struck a cord. It’s just another example that Russia is one thing American liberals and conservatives can embrace over.
Silva’s argument is simple. “Russia is now a fascist country,” he writes. He hopes soon to [...]
Mass Graves, Football, Labor, and Prisons in Russia
By Sean at 20 July, 2008, 11:01 am
As regular readers can see, my blogging has been sparse over the last few weeks. I just finished a three week teaching blitz of a Western Civilization course at Santa Monica High School. The class was part of Santa Monica Community College’s dual enrollment program which allows high school students to take classes for college [...]
Read More >>Crowned in Kitsch
By Sean at 12 July, 2008, 9:57 am
Are there any more questions about who’s in charge? I think this says it all . . .
Read More >>Shame on Russia
By Sean at 11 July, 2008, 5:09 pm
Maybe it’s some kind of gangster code. All gangsters, of whatever stripes, stick together.
Russia and China took a steaming dump on the Zimbabwean opposition and much of the world by vetoing a UN Security Council Resolution that would place sanctions on Robert Mugabe and 13 members of his gang. Nine countries backed the proposal, the [...]
