Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
John Gray’s piece in the New Statesman is prefaced with an image of Isaac Newton demonstrating the diffraction of daylight to an awestruck colleague. This image, and a similar one showing Newton projecting diffracted white light onto the backrest of…
The Russian government has found a pretext to cancel FLEX, an exchange program that let Russian teenagers spend several months with American host families and go to a local school. Masha Gessen comments on the deceptive framing of the story…
The Only People Harassing the Gays of Sochi are the Foreign Journalists, claims Julia Yoffe in The New Republic – sarcastically, I’d like to beleve. The Guardian observes: “Despite anti-gay laws, it’s business as usual in Sochi’s Mayak bar.” So what?…
As Russia-watchers probably know, the Duma is about to pass a bill outlawing “homosexual propaganda among minors.” It was originally modeled on the St. Petersburg city law sponsored by a village idiot called Vitaly Milonov, with whom Stephen Fry had…