The Well Run Dry

This week, I must again bow out of writing a long post.  Yesterday I hauled several hundred pounds of scrap wood out of my backyard, and tod...

I have spent the last week fixing things in my house that badly needed fixing, as they were falling apart.  My backyard now contains a big p...

At the end of my last post, I promised to discuss how the concept of the Third Rome and Russian Orthodoxy have influenced and guided Russian...

(Some readers may be wondering why my last two posts (as well as the next two or three) are taking a trip down the path of Russian and Byzan...

As noted in my last post, blogger Olga Doroshenko very nicely sketched out a description of national narcissism as applied to Russia.  She ...

Over the last seven or eight months, as I have tried to make sense of the changes (and attempted changes) which major players have wrought i...

Here is another blatantly spiritual post.  But hey, it's Sunday (and I will be in church shortly), so I will indulge myself. Lately I ...