The joint venture is Russia and Iran controlling Hormuz, with Trump skimming the Russian skim.

Ukraine’s de-Russification is ad hoc, as actual Slezkine, as opposed to bardic Slezkine, probably knows. Whose name does the Kyiv conservatory of music bear? Tchaikovsky’s.

It’s choose your apocalypse Easter Sunday

Living the Ex-Pat Life in Moscow at the End of the Soviet Empire Russia (Rossiya) has never been called Russia, not officially. It’s been the Tsardom of Russia, Imperial Russia, Soviet Russia, and the Russian Federation but never just Russia. That place doesn’t …

@simonmorrison.bsky.social explores the ex-pat life in Moscow after the collapse of Soviet communism.

Living the Ex-Pat Life in Moscow at the End of the Soviet Empire Russia (Rossiya) has never been called Russia, not officially. It’s been the Tsardom of Russia, Imperial Russia, Soviet Russia, and the Russian Federation but never just Russia. That place doesn’t …

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Our Nonfiction Views post on Daily Kos on March 31st featured these new nonfiction books: - The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier, by Megan Kate Nelson - The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis, by Alexandra Sifferlin - Hollywood vs. Nazis: How the Movie Studios Took On Nazis Infiltrating Los Angeles, by Michael Benson - The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, by Sebastian Mallaby - A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow, by Simon Morrison - Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It, by Tyler Beck Goodspeed - The Wage Standard: What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It, by Arindrajit Dube - Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss, by Serena Kutchinsky - The Life You Want, by Adam Phillips - The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, by Arthur C. Brooks - True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink, by Kory Stamper - Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness, by Megan Eaves-Egenes - When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World, by Suzanne Simard - No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene, by Adele Bertei - Arsenio: A Memoir, by Arsenio Hall - Impossible: The Love Affair between Marcel Duchamp and Maria Martins, and the Artwork It Inspired, by Francis M. Naumann

Our weekly post also featured notable new nonfiction of the week, including books by @mkn.bsky.social @serenakutchinsky.bsky.social @korystamper.bsky.social @simonmorrison.bsky.social @meganeaves.com @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social
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Muscular Russian history

Here’s my photo-op from Newark:

For my colleagues and friends who have asked about pre-orders of “A Kingdom and a Village,” Barnes & Noble has a member discount running from March 24–26.

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The loneliest metropolis Many cities are hard to love. Some, like Paris or Istanbul, try desperately to win you over. Moscow doesn’t really care. One of the most treasured films

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Not really breaking any news here.

Exiled Political Analyst Yekaterina Schulmann Jailed 1 Year in Absentia for Breaking ‘Foreign Agent’ Law - The Moscow Times A judge in Moscow on Monday sentenced exiled political commentator Yekaterina Schulmann to one year in prison in absentia after finding her guilty of violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law.

Schulmann is also facing terrorism charges due to her connection to the Russian Anti-War Committee.

Incredible.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late. --Emerson ⏱
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Hey Leon i'm still looking through the files and a long weekend is coming just fyi

Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College

So healing my god

Viva!

Even their Nazi agitprop anthem is shit: March along, losers, to this homophonic garbage, the antecedent phrase badly harmonized and here feebly sung.

Kevin, you keep me sane. Rock on.

Some of the worst music I’ve ever heard. No, actually the worst.

Why a Musicology Society’s Members Are in Revolt The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands.

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He’s the type of male who’ll never take a loss, has to get the last ‘splaining in.

Anthony Grafton receives Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement Grafton and seven additional Princeton faculty members were also invested as new members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Princeton professor emeritus Anthony Grafton has received the 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Let me send you a copy of this in solidarity

Right in the middle of a White House event promoting their bizarre vision of "health," one of them passed out and required medical attention.

The writers are getting lazier and lazier.

an msnbc screen showing prop 50 in california passing with 0% counted

democrats are having such a good night that the polls here just closed and they’re already calling it lol