Recently Hollywood released three major movies which all have Russians as the “bad guys” and which focus on the Cold…
Ninety years ago, Russia experienced a famine that was one of the greatest human disasters in Europe since the Black…
One of the most popular books among Russians in the 1990s was Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, first published…
One of the great classics of world literature is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (New York: Bantam Books, 1970), a…
One of the most powerful and insightful dialogues that takes place in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel, The Brother Karamazov, is…
Global Christianity: The Big Picture In December 2011, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a major study…
Conventional Wisdom on the Origins of the First World War Conventional wisdom, among both scholars and general readers, is that…
An Explorer Discovers Russia George Kennan was born in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1845 and at the age of twelve began…
The surprisingly cordial relationship that developed between President Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II, a relationship described in previous “Reflections…
In the summer of 2008, Marge and I visited the Oshkosh Public Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to see a special…