Tag Archives: Russia

Russia, Ukraine, and the Fogs of Culture War

By Jonathon Van Maren While in Ukraine on a reporting trip with a fellow editor [...]

The World Shifting Beneath Our Feet: An Interview with N.S. Lyons

By Jonathon Van Maren Since Substack was founded in 2017, it has rapidly become a [...]

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The Van Maren Show Episode 155: A Ukrainian Christian explains why she chose to stay in Kyiv

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Why Volodymyr Zelensky’s courage has captured the Western imagination

By Jonathon Van Maren For the past week, the world has been riveted by the [...]

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UK primary school bans “mum” and “dad,” American belief in God plummets (and other stories)

A roundup of important news and interviews from around the interwebs. *** In the latest [...]

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America versus the Evil Empire

By Jonathon Van Maren My introduction to this series on the 20th century, “The Century that [...]

Russia blocks access to the world’s biggest porn sites and Hungary moves to reduce the abortion rate

By Jonathon Van Maren Nothing irritates progressive commentators quite so much as watching nations reject [...]

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Reporting from Putin’s Russia

By Jonathon Van Maren In March, I traveled to Russia to meet with Danish journalist [...]

In history’s bloodiest persecution of Christians, the Russian Communists murder millions

This is the third essay in my series on the history of Christianity in Russia. [...]

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In Russia: From the Mongol yoke to the Bolshevik barbarians

By Jonathon Van Maren Author’s Note: My first essay in this series on Russian Orthodoxy, [...]