Category Archives: politics

Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality (Yet Again)

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Here’s Radio Free Europe with a reminder of how “traditional” values are playing out in today’s Russia: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for “glory … Continue reading →

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Papal Economics, Again

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

A week or so ago (yes, I’ve been away) Pope Francis’s views on economics took an even deeper turn into the swamplands of conspiracy theory. Business Insider reports: The 77-year-old leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics said some … Continue reading →

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Wenski Demands Action: Please Fill My Pews

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s Miami’s Roman Catholic archbishop Wenski writing from, so to speak, his tax-exempt pulpit, with an attack on the position that the Republican-controlled House has taken on immigration ‘reform’: As the Archbishop of Miami, a region with more than one … Continue reading →

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Now St. Vladimir?

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

After Saint Josef, Saint Vladimir?

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St. Josef?

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Modern Russia: Estonia’s president Toomas Hendrik Ilves tweets: Syncretism: the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. Pause to consider the outrage if a similar icon, but bearing the picture of Hitler, had been included … Continue reading →

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“Western Education Forbidden”

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: An atrocity now turns out to be even worse than previously thought. The Sydney Morning Herald: Kano: Nigerian police say Boko Haram militants are holding 223 girls of the 276 seized from their school in the … Continue reading →

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Putin’s Church

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Aviationist reports: A Tupolev Tu-214SR, used as a communication relay aircraft often dispatched by the Russian Air Force to accompany Putin’s presidential aircraft or other Moscow’s VIPs on their trips, has departed from St. Petersburg and it is currently … Continue reading →

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The (Re)birth of Ivan Ilyin

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. Here’s a thought-provoking take on, if you like, “Vladimir Putin, conservative”, from John Schindler. The piece covers too much ground to be summarized in a few excerpts, so I’ll focus on just one aspect of it, … Continue reading →

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Leftist blasphemies

Posted on April 17, 2014 by David Hume

Oberlin has had to walk back its policies about “trigger warnings.” An op-ed defending the old policy highlights what’s really going on here: Trigger warnings exist in order to warn readers about sensitive subjects, like sexual violence or war, that … Continue reading →

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The end of liberal universalism

Posted on April 15, 2014 by David Hume

Ross Douthat nails it in his most recent column, Diversity and Dishonesty: It would be a far, far better thing if Harvard and Brandeis and Mozilla would simply say, explicitly, that they are as ideologically progressive as Notre Dame is … Continue reading →

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