This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a friend told the Mandelstams about a bird he’d seen that, on its owner’s ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

“Bullets are the only way!” screamed the Bolsheviks. In answer to Chernov, Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin strode to the platform to cry, “We demand a dictatorship of the toiling classes!

Thirty years ago, he wrote a fine if somewhat adulatory biography of Nikolai Bukharin, a polymath economist who has remained, for all his bloodthirstiness in the Revolution and his sycophancy towards ...

The Brazilian economy is historically characterized by an unequal economic and social structure. Over the years, given this economic and social structure, the Brazilian economy developed without ...