Draft cover finally ready

Well, this is just delightful

Should Ukrain join the EU?
Yes, but on the condition to redefine the EU as a political community serving the rule of law and democratic pluralism, and to break away from the religion of free trade and competition as the solution to all problems
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I was interviewed on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 'Religion and Ethics' program about ROC MP Patriarch Kirill's reference to the war in Ukraine as a 'holy war' and what Russian propagandists mean when they talk about the 'Satanic West':
abc.net.au/listen/program…

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Writing from Tyler Austin Harper, Meagan Day, Owen Hatherley, Liza Featherstone, David Broder, Ronan Burtenshaw, and many others.

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A very good review in Jacobin of Victoria Smolkin'Victoria Smolkin's, 'A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism': jacobin.com/2024/04/the-st…

The New York Times reviews 'The Invention of Prehistory'! Liveright Books nytimes.com/2024/04/10/boo…

My deepest thanks to Luke Harding for turning his fine ear (still attached, I should hope!) to Andrei Kurkov’s SILVER BONE, a “glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux.” theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Western academics still deny that Putin has imperial goals, writes Dmitri Levitin. This betrays miserable ignorance of history thecritic.co.uk/the-ongoing-re…

Lavrov, 2021: 'We'll never ever attack anyone, especially Ukraine. We pinky swear.'
Lavrov, 2023: 'OK, OK, we'll destroy Ukraine, but we'll never ever invade anybody else.'
Medvedev, 2024: 'Btw, Latvia doesn't exist and we're going to hang its president.'

The academic job crisis in the history profession is bad for national security, argues this piece. Never seen it put exactly this way: foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/10/the…

I finally wrote for the paper I use to read three times a week when I lived in Moscow. That was when it was still a print paper and you could pick it up in better cafes and restaurants for free.

Great book, with great new cover! Congratulations Jacob Mikanowski

delighted that this symposium on my book is now out in
History of European Ideas History of European Ideas, ever so generously curated by Anne Schult
w reviews by Charles Maier, Nathaniel Berman, Kathryn Ciancia, & Clara Maier
Thanks to Remarque Institute at NYU for crucial support
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Here's the links for my conversation with Serhii Plokhy:
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc…
Podcast: lexfridman.com/podcast

NEW: Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev promoted Russia's extensive territorial objectives that expand deep into Ukraine’s territory. 🧵(1/4)

I'm writing a book on Ukraine under Russian rule, and here's what I have to say. This situation is radically different from Ukraine's Soviet or tsarist experience. This is Russia's fascist moment of the interwar type, although postponed for a century. 🧵

Wearing a Kim Jong-Un-style tunic, Dmitry Medvedev says 'Ukraine is definitely Russia' and shows off a map of what he thinks should be left of Ukraine. Spoiler: not much!

'Our geostrategic space has been indivisible since the time of the ancient Russian state,' he says.

Russia comes to Ukraine every night from the sky. Most people know how it sounds. Most people regularly hear it fly above their homes. Some go to bed to never wake up. Tonight, Russia paid a visit to Odesa and took the lives of at least 6 people, including a 3-year-old child.