Lord knows I do not always agree with The Nation magazine and its editorial approach. On cultural and sexual politics particularly, they fo...

I’m a big fan of Eustace of Mtskheta for several reasons. Firstly, he was a young working-class man who lived a normal life: a thirty-year...

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping I have been having discussions in several venues today, who seem convinced – deploying an ironically natio...

Ban Zhao 班昭 The Bans of the Han Dynasty were a family of notable literati : Ban Biao was a noted historian, and his eldest son Ban Gu and...

We all stand together… Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev – the Ober-Procurator of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church; that émi...

Our Father among the Saints, Gregorios of Nyssa In light of the recent tragic and infuriating news (some of it in my own area ) and the ...

This article by Blake Smith in Aeon magazine is an incredibly important one: I would emphatically exhort my gentle readers to read it al...