- #334: The True Iranian Revolution Is Happening Now (1/10/2026)
- #333: Maduro Captured: Global Implications (1/4/2026)
- #321: The Problem with Populism: Why Democracy Needs More Than Simple Answers (11/5/2025)
- #317: Between Enlightenment and Obscurity: Restoring the Democratic Promise of Science (10/13/2025)
- #314: Preserve Your Democracy. A Conversation with Konstantin Samoilov (10/2/2025)
- #313: Government Shutdowns Make No Sense – Specifically This One (10/1/2025)
- #312: Big Loss for Putin: Moldova Votes Pro EU (9/29/2025)
- #311: A.I. and Civic Responsibility (9/26/2025)
- #310: Dare to be Centrist, Aka, Why Centrism Is Necessary (9/22/2025)
- #309: Against Group-Think (9/17/2025)
- #304: Challenging the West? The 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Summit in Tianjin (9/4/2025)
- #299: Democracy Beats Dictatorship Anytime (8/27/2025)
- #298: Ukraine Can and Will Win. Why and How? (8/27/2025)
- #297: Europe Must Step Up to Support Ukraine (8/22/2025)
- #295: Trump Met Putin – The Aftermath (8/15/2025)
- #292: Trump Meets Putin: What to Expect? (8/14/2025)
- #290: On Criticism vs. Hate (8/6/2025)
- #289: How We Speak to Each Other Matters (8/4/2025)
- #287: The Need For Dialog (7/30/2025)
- #286: Democracy Needs Humility (7/28/2025)
- #285: Ukraine Is Not Perfect,But Still Deserves Our Support (7/25/2025)
- #284: Ukrainian Democracy Lives (7/24/2025)
- #281: A.I. Requires us to Know and Think More, Not Less. Some Reflections, With a Fascinating Bonus Response from AI (7/22/2025)
- #280: How Pseudo-Wokeness has Destroyed the Original Meaning of “Woke” (7/19/2025)
- #278: We Hate Everyone: Against the Politics of Vitriol (6/24/2025)
- #274: The Root Cause of the Russian-Ukrainian War (5/12/2025)
- #273: Peace Needs Justice: It Matters How to Make Peace in Ukraine (4/24/2025)
- #272: Is This All a Brilliant Plan? (3/4/2025)
- #271: Does Zelenskyy Want Peace? (3/3/2025)
- #270: Our Soft Power and Reputation Are at Stake with Ukraine (2/22/2025)
- #269: Trump’s Toxic Negotiation Style Echoes Putin’s Propaganda (2/19/2025)
- #268: Peace in Ukraine – Trying to Stay Calm and Carry On (2/19/2025)
- #267: Are the United States Abandoning Europe? (2/14/2025)
- #265: Ukraine Wants Peace and Russia Must Lose (12/16/2024)
- #263: Don’t Believe Putin’s Lies. He Can (and Must) Be Defeated (11/25/2024)
- #262: Defeating Russia is the Path to Make America Great Again (11/17/2024)
- #261: If You Govern Against the People, You Will Fail (11/8/2024)
- #260: Now That Happened: After the Election, All Our Work Continues (11/6/2024)
- #259: These Insults Need to Stop (10/31/2024)
- #258: Ukraine Must Win. Understanding Russia’s Imperial Ambitions in Ukraine (9/24/2024)
- #256: Words Are Not Violence, But They Can Promote It (7/16/2024)
- #255: Reflections on Recent Developments in the War Against Ukraine (6/20/2024)
- #254: What If I’m Wrong? (6/13/2024)
- #249: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part II: Addressing Religious Objections (3/5/2024)
- #248: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part I (2/26/2024)
- #247: Politics After Resentment (2/25/2024)
- #246: Navalny’s Killing Exposes Putin’s Weakness (2/19/2024)
- #245: Tucker Carlson Reveals Putin’s Fear and Delusion (2/9/2024)
- #242: On the Difference between Opposition and an Anti-Democratic Stance (1/28/2024)
- #238: Kristallnacht, 85 Years Later (11/10/2023)
- #233: On Equity and Equality of Opportunity (10/23/2023)
- #232: The Downside of the Emotional Appeal (10/23/2023)
- #231: Centrism Is a Methodology, Not Primarily an Ideology (10/21/2023)
- #226: We Must Not Give Up on Global Democracy (10/6/2023)
- #224: The Individual and Society (9/30/2023)
- #222: Science Fiction and Comics Have Always Been Woke, or: Of Course Women and Minorities Can Be Heroes! (8/3/2023)
- #221: Does Putin Want to Negotiate? (7/29/2023)
- #220: Russia’s Only Interests Are Terror and Destruction. It Must Be Defeated (7/1/2023)
- #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)
- #215: Commonsense Diversity (6/12/2023)
- #211: Is the Pandemic Over? (5/11/2023)
- #210: Why (Some Degree of) Identity Politics is Necessary (4/27/2023)
- #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)
- #204: Poem: Путин, идиот (Putin, You Idiot) (12/28/2022)
- #203: The Puzzling Resistance Against Anti-Racism (12/27/2022)
- #202: Fear Not: Why We Need to be Optimistic About the Future (12/27/2022)
- #201: Adventures in Artificial Intelligence: An Evening with ChatGBT (12/11/2022)
- #199: Why Positionality Matters (12/6/2022)
- #198: LGBTQ Rights are Human Rights (11/21/2022)
- #197: We Have Good Reasons for Hope (11/8/2022)
- #195: Fake “Referenda” Prove that Putin Doesn’t Want to Negotiate (9/25/2022)
- #194: No, the Pandemic is Not Yet Over (9/19/2022)
- #192: Biden Needs to Unite, not Demonize: In a Democracy, the “Other Side” Is Not the Enemy (9/4/2022)
- #191: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev (8/30/2022)
- #190: On the Ability of Russians to Suffer their Government (8/27/2022)
- #188: What Is “The West” Today? From “Civilization” to Cooperation (8/27/2022)
- #187: Words Are Not Violence (8/17/2022)
- #186: Salman Rushdie and the Case for Free Speech (8/17/2022)
- #183: What Are Russians Thinking? (7/31/2022)
- #181: Are We too Stupid for the Internet? (7/30/2022)
- #180: Let Biden Be Biden (7/26/2022)
- #179: Ecce Homo: Wokeness Beyond Caricatures (7/20/2022)
- #178: Russia Deserves Better (7/14/2022)
- #177: Thinking Beyond Caricatures (7/11/2022)
- #174: Climate Change Can Only Be Countered With Technological Innovation (7/9/2022)
- #173: Putin and Lavrov Demonstrate the Weakness of Today’s Russia (7/9/2022)
- #171: Writing as Witnessing (6/22/2022)
- #170: Sanctions Against Russia Are Working – And Need to Be Even Stronger (6/21/2022)
- #168: Why Must Ukraine Win? (6/6/2022)
- #166: Reflections on Memorial Day (5/31/2022)
- #165: Realpolitik Is About Appeasing Power, not Reality or Morality (5/26/2022)
- #160: Victim Blaming Par Excellence: Russia Complains About Those Helping Ukraine (4/21/2022)
- #159: Stop the Ukrainian Genocide (4/6/2022)
- µ#8: Will Smith Apologized; Let It Go (4/4/2022)
- #157: Liars Lie. Stop Believing Putin and Lavrov (3/17/2022)
- #156: Politics, Arts and Sports: Some Erratic Reflections (3/17/2022)
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