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February 2025

Evgenia on the third anniversary of the Z war
On this third anniversary of the war in Ukraine, I want to repost an essay Evgenia wrote a few months after it all started.
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Yasha Levine
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Back to the Future
We talk about my recent epiphany that the scary and volatile world of Russia that I grew up in post-collapse in the 1990s might be the future of…
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Evgenia
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Yasha Levine
21
1:06:49
The American Dream
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my experience in the suburbs and my realization that suburban sprawl forms the national character of America.
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Evgenia
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Born Again Reaganites
Evgenia and I talked about The eXile and Matt Taibbi on our Red Scare ep — about how the Red Scare girls took a very similar path as Matt, starting out…
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Yasha Levine
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Trump's Ukraine payback
It was probably not the smartest thing for Ukraine’s civil society to run a meddling op against Trump back in the day.
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Yasha Levine
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Red Scare's Wake
We talk about the rise and fall of Red Scare, America’s once-coolest Soviet immigrant podcast.
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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2:00:04
The unbearable uselessness of liberal anti-zionism
A review of Peter Beinart's "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza"
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Yasha Levine
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The Theatre Experience with Matthew Gasda
We talk to playwright and theatre director Matthew Gasda about his plays, his theatre company Brooklyn Centre for Theatre Research, and the zeitgeist of…
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Evgenia
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Yasha Levine
1:26:37
USAID and Security State Clan Wars
...and the counterinsurgency history of the agency that will be no more.
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Yasha Levine
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An incredible moment in history
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza strip...we'll own it.” So said President Donald Trump, reading from a prepared statement with a smirking Benjamin…
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Yasha Levine
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