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This post is a further development of the idea I first described in Russia’s Psychotic Break. It started as a round-about way to process Russia’s war…

Dec 13, 2022

I have given up on writing a Russia/Ukraine op-ed for the NYT—I’m too close to the topic, my feelings on it too raw and my thoughts too hopeless and…

Nov 21, 2022

In August of 2020, I wrote in Putin Does Not Exist: I’ve been playing with the idea of a “psychopolitical method”—a system of views and practices that…

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Apr 20, 2022

My first contact with Tibetan Buddhism must have happened in my late teens. I went to the oldest Buddhist temple in Europe—the St. Petersburg datsan—on…

Nov 14, 2021

To Be Found Experientially

May 18, 2021

Readers’ mail

Feb 27, 2021

Getting high as civic responsibility

Feb 16, 2021

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