Search all posts
-
Most Recent Posts
Sites of Interest
Tag Archives: The Death of Stalin
Nostalgic for autocracy?
Somewhere in the past few days I saw a brief video of a MAGA woman saying, yes, she’d like Donald Trump to be an autocrat. She’d like that, autocracy. I think she meant as long as the autocrat was her … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Alibaba, Armando Ianucci, Chinese capitalism, Chinese COVID policy, Chinese Warren Buffett, Evan Osnos, Jack Ma, Mao, Party Leader Deng, Party Leader Xi, Politburo, Putin, The Death of Stalin, Uyghur, Xi Jinping
Comments Off on Nostalgic for autocracy?
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
Posted in Fascism, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, War
Tagged Armando Iannucci, autocracies, David Remnick, despotism, despots, Hoover Institution, hot war, Putin, Quisling, Russia, sanctions, Stanford U, Stephen Kotkin, The Death of Stalin, The New Yorker, The Weakness of the Despot", Ukraine
Comments Off on About despots, Ukraine, Putin and America
“There are nightmares that make more sense than this”*
From Harper’s Weekly Report: …at the same [Montana rally] event, the president [Trump] also explained, “The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.” …and in Japan, an octopus that correctly predicted the … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Harper's Weekly Report, octopus, The Death of Stalin, Trump, World Cup
Comments Off on “There are nightmares that make more sense than this”*