Tag Archives: Quisling

About despots, Ukraine, Putin and America

I’m a few months behind in my New Yorkers. Today, though, David Remnick, the New Yorker’s editor, linked on Twitter a fascinating conversation he had with a Stalin scholar, Stephen Kotkin. The title of the piece, “The Weakness of the … Continue reading

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A real hero just died. His story is thrilling

I don’t remember when or how I first learned about what a small group of Norwegians did during World War II, to ensure that Werner Heisenberg, a Nobel-prize winning German physicist, would not get his hands on heavy water, a … Continue reading

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Ron Johnson, America’s very own Quisling*

I don’t know if you saw the cringe-worthy video of what a bunch of us on Twitter are now calling the #Kremlinboys, i.e., the seven GOP senators and one GOP congresswoman who made the bizarre decision to celebrate America’s Independence … Continue reading

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