May 09, 2024
There Can Be No “Vne”
As are many of us, I am reacting to Russia’s criminal and devastating war against Ukraine with tears, desperation, a sense of guilt, helplessness, disgust, and anger. But I am […]
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War Against Ukraine
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Discussion Posts
February 28, 2023
They Told You So
From early 2014, as the Euromaidan Revolution unfolded, Ukraine’s citizens were forced to respond to countless editorials and articles in western publications, all of which assumed that they were a […]
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Why You May Want to Go to Ukraine Now
As the situation in Western and Central Ukraine has for now stabilized, a trip to Kyiv can provide those interested in international affairs with a unique opportunity to observe world […]
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Over 1.3 million people have arrived in Poland as of March 10, with so many coming to Warsaw that they now constitute 10% of the city’s population. Poles have answered with […]
Read full postMarch 10, 2022
Ukraine’s Precarity
In the early 2000s I was in Romania on a research trip. It’s a lovely country with a harsh modern history. While there, a colleague pointed out a huge public […]
Read full postMarch 09, 2022
Look for the Helpers-but Remember that They’re Human
Whenever a mass tragedy takes place in the United States, it’s common to see a quote from children’s show host Fred Rogers circulate on social media: “When I was a […]
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Russia’s vicious war against Ukraine is the last gasp effort to silence the narrative of a Ukrainian nation and make the world safe for Russia’s fantasy that the East Slavs […]
Read full postMarch 08, 2022
What Can Force the Kremlin to Stop Its War?
When Russia illegally annexed Crimea and fueled the armed conflict in Donbas approximately eight years ago, Vladimir Putin experienced being punished by relatively mild sanctions that did not alter his […]
Read full postMarch 07, 2022
A Voice from the Past
The Yiddish poet David Hofshteyn was in Kyiv in 1919, when the city was attacked again and again by different forces. He writes about the experience. The city is besieged; […]
Read full postMarch 03, 2022
Business as Usual, idi nakhui
Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine vividly demonstrates the Putin regime’s utmost inhumanity, social irresponsibility, anti-western ressentiment, and obsession with Ukraine. At the same time, it shows that this is not […]
Read full postMarch 03, 2022
Full Historiographical Legitimacy to Ukraine
In 1995 late Mark von Hagen opened his though-provoking essay “Does Ukraine Have a History?” with an observation that Ukrainian studies lack full historiographical legitimacy in major Anglo-American, German, and […]
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