Cross-posted to Goodreads here . Dr Aleksei Il’ich Osipov’s book, The Search for Truth on the Path of Reason , has just become one of my...

I’m currently reading the Orthodox apologetics book The Search for Truth on the Path of Reason by Professor Aleksei Il’ich Osipov. Now, I...

Interesting news from the educational realm in Singapore. Singapore’s educational system is widely regarded as one of the best in the worl...

Evidently, we now know that Jeff Bezos consults with psychic mediums . Elon Musk has a strange fascination with the eighteenth-century oc...

The Communist Party of China has been busy lately, to judge from the headlines of late. Late last year, they not only firmly rapped the k...

Cat (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), Killa (Maksim Konovalov), Rama (Sergei Gorobchenko) and Burnout (Andrei Merzlikin) in Bumer Following up on m...

Well, it seems I got quite the response on social media to my last ‘political’ blog post here. Much of it was… let’s just say, uninspiring...

A family of Evenki reindeer herders The Last Quarter of the Moon , or in Chinese The Right Bank of the Argun 《額爾古納河右岸》, Chi Zijian’s 遲子建 ...

Recently I watched Platform 《站台》 , the third of Jia Zhangke’s 贾樟柯 full-length films. Following a group of young musicians from the death...

In my recent attention to matters Old and English, I haven’t been focussing on hagiographies to the exclusion of all else – though my piecem...