Monthly Archives: March 2022

What George Orwell Had to Say about Alternative Facts Universes like Those of Putin and Trump

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

We live in an open society, and so it is relatively easy for Putin to embed agents (e.g., Maria Butina) and recruit assets here to spread his “truths.” Because we are awash in agents and assets (witting and unwitting) of … Continue reading →

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Diane Ravitch Responds to Putinist Trolls

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

Please read this moving piece by my candidate for Greatest Living American, Diane Ravitch. As she so often does, she nails this. Dr. Ravitch writes: As regular readers know, I have received and posted several comments complaining that I don’t … Continue reading →

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An Existentialist Perspective on Russia v. the West

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

This is an excerpt from a PBS interview with the profound, learned, witty, altogether brilliant Russian political scholar and former member of the Russian Duma Ekaterina Schulmann. It’s from a series called The Putin Files. I say that this is … Continue reading →

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