The Meaning of the China-Russia Entente

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. I recently spoke with Dr. Pietro Shakarian, a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Historical Research at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in...

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The New York Times Presents: Russia for Dummies

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. Jonathan Mahler, a sportswriter who hit it big with his 2005 book Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, has turned his attention to something that...

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A Conversation with Scott Horton

Reprinted with permission from the The Realist Review, James Carden's Substack. The indefatigable podcaster and author Scott Horton wears many hats. In addition to his role as Director of the Libertarian Institute, he hosts the Scott Horton Show and is the author of...

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Peter Ford: Ambassador, Dissident… Future MP?

Reprinted with permission from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord (ACURA). Peter Ford is deputy leader of the Workers Party of Britain which bills itself as something quite unheard of in America: socialist and socially conservative.  Ford was a career British...

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Q&A: Richard Sakwa: Trump’s Perestroika?

Reprinted with permission from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord (ACURA) The eminent Russianist Richard Sakwa is emeritus professor of Politics at the University of Kent. His new book (his fourth since 2020) is called The Culture of the Second Cold War...

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James Carden on Scaremongering on Sunday

Minutes before the start of the Bills-Chiefs AFC championship game on Sunday, viewers were subjected to a risible 30 second ad paid for by a shadowy dark money PAC called National Interest [sic] Action. The ad serves as a kind of scare-mongering open letter to...

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