- Bohumil Hrabal: the life, times, letters and politics of a Czech novelist
- What Davos Missed by Excluding North Korea
- The Rise and Fall of the Soviet ‘Death Star’
- Searching for Vadim Kozin, the Soviet tango king
- Are we likely to see new nation-states emerge this century?
- Historical Methodology and the Believer (of Islam)
Steve Weintz
BC’s weekend reads
- The debt of a Pope called Francis to past Syrian refugees, Part 1 (be sure to check out parts 2 and 3, too)
- Ten Things I Want My Children To Learn From 9/11 (and also “Ten (or So) Lessons of 9/11“)
- Hellburners Were the Renaissance’s Tactical Nukes
- The Inevitable Divorce: Secular France and Radical Islam
- How Petty Traffic Fines Ruin Lives in Milwaukee (and Everywhere in America)
- Edwin and Barry both have excellent posts on current events in Europe and the Near East (Jacques has a related post); be sure to scroll through all the comments in their respective threads…
