Greg Bottoms knows what you are supposed to do when you love someone. + The Row Boat longs for a pacifism that honors those who serve in the military, a political position on war that respects Christ's image in man without disparaging the men who offer their lives for their country. + Wikipedia ...

Censorship continues to pose problems for historians and academics in Russia. Orlando Figes, a history professor at the University of London, just finished writing a book, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia , that does not sit well with the Russian government's desire to instill...

Carlos the Jackal wants President Obama to tell him what happened to his former "comrade in arms", Bruno Breuget, who disappeared while in CIA custody in 1995. Allegations of secret CIA jails in Hungary, KGB involvement, and "ideological gun-slinging" makes this a fun read in the...

In this opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal , Thomas Frank has a little fun with Richard Perle's insistence that neoconservatism is a mere pigment of the conspiracy theorists' imagination. Because, as Leo Strauss believed, we the people are dumb enough to fall for anything. And we shou...

When we awoke this morning, the branches were covered with stunning white snow. For the next three hours, the snow continued to tumble from the sky, first in little scraps and finally in fantastic, thick clumps. Max could hardly contain his excitement, so we went outdoors to taste the snow, collect ...

We come closer: hills and waves of sacks, in between them sighs, scarves, backs. There are almost no men: in the Revolution, as always, the weight of everyday life falls on women: previously-- in sheaves, now in sacks. (Everyday life is a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.) The Russian poet ...

 1. CRIB NOTES Turn a discarded crib spring into a hardworking office organizer. HOW TO Cut two sides of the spring with a metal saw to desired size (we matched the proportion of the table below). Next, screw the original top and bottom of the spring to 1×2s (cut to fit.) Drill two holes in e...

Reading Dawisha and Parrott's Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucuses , the fourth volume in their well-reputed series Democratization and Authoritarianism in Postcommunist Societies , I had to prop myself up on my pillows and re-read the following excerpt: "...the f...

I'm going to keep this list updated as I discover new locations. Please email any suggestions my way, or add them as comments below. Also, I've rated the items below as we visited them. **** Four stars indicates a must-see. *** Three stars indicate good field trip, but pre-planning and lesso...

Ready-Made magazine has instructions and information on how to make this perfectly-bulbous chandelier.. A hanging lamp composed of 12 handblown glass balls and 3 clear globe bulbs. Clusters of balls and bulbs are held together by cables wrapped in cotton parcel post twine. For fear that the world mi...