Friday, February 25, 2005

Vladimir German and family

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About a month a ago Vladimir German contacted me regarding his April immigration hearing. Vladimir and his family are ethnic Germans from Ka...

Other Blogs

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I have been looking at some other blogs recently. They don't seem to look like this one. This blog is really just a diary which has the ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Why are there so many i tiles in scrabble?

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I played Scrabble and actually won for the first time in months today. One recurring complaint everybody seems to have is that the game has ...
Monday, February 21, 2005

Applebaum and Soviet nationalities

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I saw Anne Applebaum interviewed on tv today. Like her book Gulag: A History (which cites me a number of time) I found her talk almost compl...
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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Back to blogging

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After a long break from blogging I have decided to return. In the meantime I got my Ph.D. from SOAS (U. of London) and returned to the US. I...
Thursday, August 12, 2004

Academic Follies

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I have now been done with my dissertation for five months. It will be at least another two months before my viva. In the meantime I have bee...
Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Israel's Stalinist Model

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I can understand why the left in the US has always been pro-Zionists. It is the same reason the Stalin regime supported the creation of Isra...
Friday, August 06, 2004

Divided by a common language

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George Bernard Shaw once said that Americans and Britians were "two people divided by a common language." Which is another way of ...
Thursday, August 05, 2004

Why Stalinism is more evil than Hitlerism

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The official line among western intellectuals is that Naziism is uniquely evil and Stalinism is a distant runner up. I reject this line of ...
Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Introduction

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I am currently living in a bit of limbo. I finished writing my Ph.D. dissertation months ago, but will not have my viva until at least Octob...