Ordinary Russians: On Elena Kostyuchenko’s “I Love Russia”
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the story of Elena’s own life is the story of the Russia that was decisively lost in February 2022.
True Enough: “The MANIAC” and “Oppenheimer”
Culpability is offloaded onto the very idea of science itself: unfeeling, inhuman, inevitable. These warnings do not allow for human ingenuity or variety of thought; they cannot imagine another way. But it’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools.