Commentaries

The Ukrainian drone strike against the Russian president’s state residence in Novgorod region might be the perfect microcosm for the the late 2025-26 Ukraine supporter information space. Even when I first reported Lavrov’s initial comments on the drone strike, I had a feeling that the opposition’s kneejerk reaction was going to be flat denial. Of … Read more

Today I read a particularly baffling 2023 Atlantic article about Lebensborn, the children produced in the famous nazi project to cultivate the German nation. After the war, Lebensborn endured extreme abuse, frequently institutionalized by force and sterilized out of fear of their evil nazi genes (ironic). While the author Valentine Faure did very briefly allude to the … Read more

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The Bondi Beach attack will probably be the Reichstag Fire to crack down even further on citizens’ speech and gun rights, as well as increase surveillance. I already see media reports in several countries describing the “rising threat” in the most hysterical terms possible, and this will certainly be used to justify draconian authoritarianism. But … Read more