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A sign from a DC Women's March that reads, "70% anti-abortion leaders are men; 100% of them will never be pregnant."

Abortion, History, and the Beginning of Life

… to have an abortion–by ignoring morality, tradition, and common sense. Those who seek to ban abortion frequently … Christian society. Such a society can be found in western Europe in the Middle Ages. Many medieval legal codes were explicitly based on the Bible. …
The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.

Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old

… by Oxford mathematician and logician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), celebrates her 150 th birthday this … our own purposes as well. Zombie Alice at 2014 New York ComicCon. Cosplaying is one way people have taken ownership … what the painful and even fatal consequences were of disobedience. Carroll, however, was on the side of the child, an …
Motorcycle and sidecar with an advertisement for the Popolo d'Italia newspaper.

A Media King Becomes Prime Minister (Again)

… The Italian media mogul, Italy’s richest man, is now the incoming prime minister. How could that not be worrisome for … business establishment and participate effectively in the European Union. When the “clean hands” magistrates … channels he owns and public ones whose director he appoints, he will control 90 percent of television …

After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections

… of investing abroad, whether in formerly Soviet space, the European Union, the U.S., or developing countries. The … the population had long been waiting. Putin in effect embodies Russia's "recovery": he has succeeded in putting an end … are free to speak from and for a variety of political viewpoints (monarchy or republic, tsarist or Soviet nostalgia, …
St. Catherine of Siena depicted on a wood panel.

Speaking Truth to Catholic Power

… scandal. Frustrated by a few unrepentant prelates, Keating compared their conspiratorial behavior to that of the Mafia. … the bishops’ June meeting in St. Louis. Before he could do so, however, Keating spared him the trouble by resigning. … more amazing, though, is that he listened. After Gregory died in Rome, Catherine hoped his successor, Pope Urban VI, …
 How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore Book Cover.

The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony

Review of How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… His friends admired him for his intelligence, honesty, and commitment to virtue, but thought that maybe a little … loved to hold forth on the frivolity and stupidity of the ladies of high society, something not calculated to win female … Day, like so many other guardians of eighteenth-century Europe, held the French philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s …
Russian peasants in the early 20th century.

Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia

… When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as America's third president in 1801, he … to the rules of the Constitution, all will … unite in common efforts for the common good," he proclaimed. Two … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …
Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine, 2018.

The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine

… that emerged in the ninth century around Kyiv. The medieval Primary Chronicle tells how, in 988, Grand Prince … in the Ukrainian Republic . By 1992, there were three competing Orthodox churches in Ukraine: the UOC-MP, a new … Orthodox Church. This feeling intensified following the Euromaidan revolution , the Russian seizure of Crimea , and …
Dmitri Karakozov before his execution, graphite drawing by Ilya Repin in 1866

Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … What caused this novel to take Russia by storm? Russian society at the time was struck by the boldness of … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest …
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"

Russia’s Lost Empire

Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… Does the Russian nation consist solely of ethnic Russians living within its borders? Or does … government that aspired to closer relations with the European Union. Readers should be aware that pro-Ukrainian … and truly non-Russian populations dwelled . Readers might come away with the impression that the Russian Empire and …
 protests by the Yellow Vest movement

France at the Barricades, 1934

… passed a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Édouard Daladier’s government. But based on advice from army and police … French cities. In fact, the riots of February 6 th have become shorthand to describe the protests and violence that … for symbolizing the growing political divisions throughout Europe in the 1930s. Yet, the protests were also a …
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

… Mendeleev delivered a full paper to the Russian Chemical Society spelling out the most significant aspect of his … chemists had worked to find an organizing principle that encompassed all of the known elements and that could be … characteristics—they were largely inert and resistant to combining with other substances—but the entire set fit …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… Alice Conklin about the history and mass appeal of socialism in France . ( Image Source ) … Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … a digital media piece of writing geared toward a popular audience. Is there some advantage to this form of writing over …
President George H.W. Bush shaking hands with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin.

Russia — Ten Years After the Fall

… day ten years ago that Kremlin guards hauled down the Soviet flag for the last time and Mikhail Gorbachev calmly … wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long … many Russians did hope that Russia would magically become like the United States, the euphoric American …
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov

Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia

Review of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021)
… allies and anti-Bolshevik forces in a series of schemes. Soviet secret agents lured him back in 1924, where he was … and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … escaped and joined the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) Combat Organization. He was now a political terrorist and a …
Cover of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel.

God for Nazis

Review of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany , by Susannah Heschel (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… Heschel's work, the Prophets was written not for a Jewish audience but for people of faith in general. Writing during … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … time that Susannah Heschel manages to score any serious points is with her discussion of the post-war period, during …
Greek troops with a machine gun during the war

The Greco-Turkish War

… Greco-Turkish war erupted. The war resulted in the largest compulsory population exchange in history up to that time (2 … warfare slowed the Greek Army’s progression, and Greek soldiers’ acts of violence against Muslim villagers created … today. With instability in both the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and the rise of nationalism globally, it may be only …
Graffiti reading "Ireland a Nation, Irish and Free"

The Provisional Irish Republican Army

… inequality, in 1967 the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) was formed, inspired by the American Civil … Catholic Republic of Ireland, an utterly unacceptable outcome. They therefore fiercely fought the civil rights … take a seat, even if elected) in either of the electoral bodies that represented the two halves of the island: the …

Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

… This epidemic is not limited to America and Western Europe: it is visible in East Asia, Central and South … invariably generates a shift to a more "western" style diet, which involves rising meat consumption, which in turn … From the perspective of today's food crisis, two points are particularly germane here. First, this particular …
Polin Museum

A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

… in Polish-Jewish history. After years of controversies and compromises, the final product represents the dedicated … the time, Pawlak was the Director of Development for the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. In … Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor of performance studies at New York University, who was appointed to as the …
The Rodina crew. Left to right: Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and Marina Raskova.

The Rodina Flight

The Remarkable Story of the Women’s Non-Stop Long-Distance Flight Record
… in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, three Soviet female pilots narrowly escaped death in pursuit of … miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … 15. Shevchenko, Nikolay, “How Three Soviet Women Nearly Died Chasing their Aviation Dream, Gateway to Russia , …