By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ Artem’s recent discourse on ‘Traditional Values’ is annoyingly accurate in many ways. So why ‘annoyingly’? I think it is because – although Artem throws a few alms in the direction of ‘tradition’ toward the end, the article, faithful to the author’s proclivity, remains top heavy in the direction of the political and perhaps just a tad neglectful in its allowances for the psychological … Read the rest
Content 18+ Human beings have always harbored a profound affection for nostalgia. We carefully cherish relics, meticulously preserve artifacts, and laboriously attempt to recreate the past, investing it with an almost spiritual passion—typically reserved for matters of immense importance or significant unease. Today, the phrase “traditional values” has emerged prominently as the soothing balm generously applied to society’s wounds, anxieties born from rapid technological, cultural, and social transformations. Beneath its … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ There are a lot of ways to look at Donald Trump’s stunning victory, and perhaps even more ways not to. Among the latter are to demonize Trump and stomp one’s feet about ‘populism’ and start calling every Trump-supporter a nazi or fascist. But beyond the inevitable sour grapes and name calling, there is one error that leaps off the charts: pretending that Trump’s win … Read the rest
By ERIC LE ROY
Content 18+ Artem’s article “The Soviet Paradox: Women, Rights, and the Twisted Path of Progress” was highly informative, albeit a bit too glib (for my taste) in its glowing endorsement and idealized portraiture of the Bolsheviks. First, it might be recalled that there was not only one, but two revolutionary groups pressing their cause in the Russia of those frantic revolutionary days. The other was the … Read the rest
