- #253: Some Thoughts on Structures and Systems (4/30/2024)
- #246: Navalny’s Killing Exposes Putin’s Weakness (2/19/2024)
- #245: Tucker Carlson Reveals Putin’s Fear and Delusion (2/9/2024)
- #244: When Aliens Attack, What Will We Do? Reflections on Western Hesitancy in the Face of Russian Aggression (2/9/2024)
- #241: The War Against Israel (12/5/2023)
- #239: Is History Helpful for Solving Conflicts? (11/12/2023)
- #230: Against Hamas, Against Antisemitism, Against Antizionism (10/15/2023)
- #221: Does Putin Want to Negotiate? (7/29/2023)
- #219: Some Reflections on Fukuyama and the End of History (6/24/2023)
- #218: The West Is Not in Decline (6/20/2023)
- #217: Thoughts on June 17: The GDR Was an Inhumane Dictatorship (6/17/2023)
- #214: “Race” as the Experience of Dehumanization (6/11/2023)
- #210: Why (Some Degree of) Identity Politics is Necessary (4/27/2023)
- #208: The Perversion of Everything Russian: From Leningrad to Mariupol (3/27/2023)
- #207: Democracy Only Works with a Strong Separation of Powers (2/14/2023)
- #206: The Importance of Being Political (1/18/2023)
- #205: If You Want Peace: Why We Must Help Ukraine (1/16/2023)
- #197: We Have Good Reasons for Hope (11/8/2022)
- #195: Fake “Referenda” Prove that Putin Doesn’t Want to Negotiate (9/25/2022)
- #193: De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bene: We Owe Respect to the Dead (9/10/2022)
- #191: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev (8/30/2022)
- #190: On the Ability of Russians to Suffer their Government (8/27/2022)
- #189: Soviet Monuments Need To Go (8/27/2022)
- #188: What Is “The West” Today? From “Civilization” to Cooperation (8/27/2022)
- #183: What Are Russians Thinking? (7/31/2022)
- #178: Russia Deserves Better (7/14/2022)
- #176: Get Brexit Undone (7/9/2022)
- #173: Putin and Lavrov Demonstrate the Weakness of Today’s Russia (7/9/2022)
- #170: Sanctions Against Russia Are Working – And Need to Be Even Stronger (6/21/2022)
- #166: Reflections on Memorial Day (5/31/2022)
- #165: Realpolitik Is About Appeasing Power, not Reality or Morality (5/26/2022)
- #163: Putin’s Russia Celebrates Its Own Fascism (5/8/2022)
- #160: Victim Blaming Par Excellence: Russia Complains About Those Helping Ukraine (4/21/2022)
- #159: Stop the Ukrainian Genocide (4/6/2022)
- #158: Russia’s Entire “Special Operation” Is a War Crime (3/18/2022)
- #157: Liars Lie. Stop Believing Putin and Lavrov (3/17/2022)
- #154: Against Putin: Yes. Against Russia: No. (3/7/2022)
- #153: The Monstrosity of Vladimir Putin: We Have Learned Nothing From History (3/4/2022)
- #152: Democracy vs. Tyranny, or: How Does It Feel to Live in a Dictatorship? (3/2/2022)
- #151: Putin Is a Fascist per Definition (3/2/2022)
- #149: As Putin Is Orchestrating to Commit Genocide… (3/1/2022)
- #148: Putin Does Not Care About Russia. It’s a Russian Leader’s Tradition (2/28/2022)
- #147: Why Should We Care About Ukraine? A Pragmatic Answer (2/27/2022)
- #146: The Fall of the Soviet Union Was the Greatest Event of the Late 20th Century (2/27/2022)
- #145: Putin Has Never Been Threatened By NATO (2/27/2022)
- #144: Putin’s War Against Ukraine Is a War Against All of Us (2/24/2022)
- #143: The Madness of the Czar: Putin’s Incoherent Speech (2/22/2022)
- #141: Is Wearing a Star of David Labeled “Unvaccinated” Anti-Semitic? (2/20/2022)
- #138: The West Is not Weak, But It Has Lacked Commitment (2/14/2022)
- #136: Is Putin the Aggressor? (2/5/2022)
- #134: If People Apologize for Their Mistake, They Should Not Be Cancelled (2/3/2022)
- #130: German Hypocrisy: How to Claim to be a Moral Leader While Acting like an International Free-Loader. A Polemic (1/25/2022)
- #128: Russia Is Part of the West (1/19/2022)
- #127: We Cannot Overcome Racism If We Talk About “Race” all the Time (1/18/2022)
- #126: NATO Is Not Threatening Russia, and Putin Knows It. Some Thoughts on Solutions. (1/17/2022)
- #109: We Cannot Lose Hope (8/20/2021)
- #99: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism (5/29/2021)
- #98: The Populist Attack on Democracy During the Pandemic (5/22/2021)
- #97: Are We Prepared for Extraterrestrial Life? (5/22/2021)
- #95: For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace (5/21/2021)
- #94: What Is Political Extremism Today? (5/13/2021)
- #92: The Impact of Brexit on Trade (4/28/2021)
- #91: The Transatlantic Perspective Needs to be Global (4/25/2021)
- #86: Nature Is Stronger than Us: The Pandemic, not the Lockdown, Is the Problem (4/5/2021)
- #85: Anti-Asian Hate and the Human Capacity for Divisiveness (3/31/2021)
- #83: The Purpose of History, or, We Need to Explain Democracy Better (3/28/2021)
- #79: The Need for the Public Understanding of Humanities and Social Science Theory (2/22/2021)
- #78: What Is Social Justice – and What Isn’t (2/18/2021)
- #76: We Need No Saviors (2/11/2021)
- #75: There Are No “Internal Matters” (2/9/2021)
- #68: We Do Not Need Enemies (1/3/2021)
- #66: Democracy Needs Well-Educated Citizens (12/26/2020)
- #65: Sine Ira et Studio: The Strength of Dispassionate Criticism (12/14/2020)
- #64: The Illusion of Brexit (12/10/2020)
- #61: We All Need to Appreciate Each Other (10/28/2020)
- #59: Why Really Big Conspiracies Cannot Exist (10/21/2020)
- #56: Disentangling Race and Ethnicity (10/17/2020)
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