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  • Animal Kingdom

    I am afraid. I am deeply afraid. You see, when you are young, somewhere in your teen years, the world allows you a level of ignorance, a level of naïveté in most things. The world is this big house into which you are born blind. And in this house, you move around by feeling your

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  • Putin and the Pussy Riot

    I learned a valuable lesson in the fall of 2003. For a 20-year-old, it vulgarly and violently shattered whatever cemented notions I held of power. Literary texts and other conventional sources of wisdom that had helped crystallize a young man’s idealistic view of power suddenly became limp. Only one thing, and one thing now means

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