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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Russia’s Demographic Resilience II
As little as a few months ago, alarmist commentators were forecasting Russia’s demographic doom. They predicted a wave of abortions that would strip down its post-2006 fertility gains, and a prolonged period of fertility postponement that would have longterm effects deep into its dark Putinist future. Meanwhile, there would be a renewed pandemic of vodka [...]
Shifting Winds
Every once in a while, there occurs a major shift in the international arena. The First World War and its consequences were the seminal change of the last century, collapsing ancient empires and ushering in a new era of ethno-nationalist clashes, political radicalism and emerging powers challenging the established order of Versailles, forces that were [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Tagged central asia, chaos, china, economy, energy, espionage, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, iran, islam, israel, middle east, military, morale, nato, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, technology, ukraine, usa, vision, war 19 Comments
What should I major in?
This is an timeless question asked by millions of college students every year. Let me try to answer it.
It’s true that the average engineering major will earn more than the average “liberal arts” major. However, before submitting to the whims of your authoritarian parents or social judgments on the relative worth of “hard” and “soft” [...]
The Genesis of Total War
In the summer of 1914, the world was integrated as never before. Despite its simmering tensions and conscript armies, the European continent had open borders, a shared respect for private property and rule of law, and dynastic ties that bound its monarchs together – most poignantly represented by the pageantry surrounding the funeral of Edward [...]
Posted in Coffee House Tagged britain, france, germany, history, international relations, military 1 Comment
The Struggle between Europe and Mankind
Though Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) remains more famous for his contributions to the field of linguistics, his other great achievement was as one of the founding fathers of the Eurasian movement. Riding on the dark wave of disillusionment sweeping the world in the wake of the First World War, he penned the seminal essay Europe and Man [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Tagged communism, corruption, culture, germany, human rights, imperialism, international relations, japan, liberasm, marxism, morale, philosophy, putin, russians, russophobes, vision, western hypocrisy 12 Comments
Fear and Fervor under Stalinist Industrialization
Review of “Behind the Urals” (J. Scott)
Scott, John – Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel (1941)
Category: history, Soviet Union, Stalin; Rating: 5/5
The Great Depression of the 1930’s, with its iconic images of well-dressed bourgeoisie in soup lines and gaunt figures with hopeless eyes from the Dust Bowl, challenged the prior American [...]
Posted in Da Russophile Tagged authoritarianism, communism, culture, history, human rights, politics, review, russians, soviet union, stalin 8 Comments
America’s Liberty Cycles
This is my first follow-up post to The Belief Matrix, in which I attempted to advance a universal model for civilizational responses to subsistence crises (The Malthusian Loop) and the Western challenge (The Sisyphean Loop). The first country I’ll apply this too is the US, because doing so will allow me to make several important [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Tagged culture, history, human rights, matrix, morale, politics, usa, vision, western hypocrisy 6 Comments
Review of “Global Catastrophes and Trends” (V. Smil)