Not All Political Prisoners Are Innocents.

The Internet Is Very Democratizing In Some Ways, But It Also Has Other Effects.

We Begin To Inhabit Oppositional And Rarely Intersecting Mental Universes Having To Do With Ideology And Fact And Non-fact And News And Non-news.

Russian Is Such A Tough And Complex Language That I Am Happy Enough To Understand Everything And Read Most Things Pretty Well, But, Without Constant Practice, My Speech Is Not What I Wish It Was, And I Would Sooner Write In Crayon Than Write A Letter In Russian.

There Are Days When You Might Enjoy Being An Editor A Little Less, Due To One Crisis Or Another. It Is Absolutely Vital, To Me, In A Period Of Technological Evolution And Sometimes Financial Stress That I And My Colleagues Not Only Put Out A Fantastic Magazine And Web Site And All The Rest, But Also That We Are Smart Enough About What We Are Doing.

There Is No Single Field Of Activity, Not A Single Institution, Free Of The Most Brutal Sort Of Corruption. Russia Has Bred A World-class Mafia.