');
The Unz Review •�An Alternative Media Selection$
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
RSS
by ⇅�
Sources Filter? ❌
da-russophile sublime-oblivion
Nothing found
�
BlogAnatoly Karlin Archive
/
Guest
�BlogAnatoly Karlin Archive
/
Guest

◄►Bookmark◄❌►▲ ▼Toggle AllToC▲▼Add to LibraryRemove from Library •�B
Show CommentNext New CommentNext New ReplyRead More
ReplyAgree/Disagree/Etc. More... This Commenter This Thread Hide Thread Display All Comments
AgreeDisagreeThanksLOLTroll
These buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment. They are ONLY available to recent, frequent commenters who have saved their Name+Email using the 'Remember My Information' checkbox, and may also ONLY be used three times during any eight hour period.
Ignore Commenter Follow Commenter
American Gas Burners, Russian Nuclear Starships
•�September 16, 2021
•�1,000 Words •�41 Comments
mal comments on a post from last year: Well, there’s nothing wrong with current Russian commercial space program such – they are launching OneWeb satellites now and there’s a Korean one thats supposed to go on Angara. SpaceX does have more launches but thats because they launch their own Starlink constellation and Russian Sphere is... Read More
Thulean Friend on Israel's Prospects
•�August 4, 2019
•�1,000 Words •�111 Comments
In my tradition of rescuing sufficiently fine comments from the relative oblivion that are long comments sections, I am reprinting Thulean Friend's detailed comment on Israel's prospects in the last Open Thread. *** I got into a discussion with Dmitry some time ago about emigration patterns from Israel. His postion was that it was an... Read More
Vendetta on China and Japan in Late 19th Century
•�July 25, 2019
•�3,400 Words •�142 Comments
Some comments are so good that shouldn't be allowed to sink in remote discussions threads. Commenter Vendetta writes on China vs. Japan in the late 19th century: *** The British did not provide any of this assistance for free. Japan had to pay for every weapon and every warship supplied by British yards. Its ability... Read More
Quadruple Whammy
•�April 27, 2019
•�100 Words •�13 Comments
The judge in question was an Obama-era minority appointee. This may have played a role in her imposing the maximum sentence of 18 months requested by the prosecution, despite the ridiculousness of the case. reiner Tor comments:
Kimppis on Chinese Naval Power
•�March 15, 2019
•�900 Words •�39 Comments
This is a very good summary and syncs with how I view things. *** To be fair, I respect Mr. Martyanov’s views and also read his blog regularly. It’s true as well that China’s SSN fleet remains a relative weakness, so even in my opinion he’s certainly correct there to an extent. However, I do... Read More
Annatar on Soviet Military Casualties
•�February 26, 2019
•�1,300 Words •�8 Comments
I have long been in the Krivosheev camp, but this sounds like very plausible: *** The casualty estimates of Overmans and Krivosheev are off by significant amounts. On the German side, the first estimate of military losses was produced by Gregory Frumkin of the, editor of the Yearbook of the League of Nations, unlikely to... Read More
Polish Perspective on Polish Reforms
•�February 23, 2019
•�1,400 Words •�110 Comments
I find the comments on extractive elites to be very plausible and they would form an interesting complement to viewing them in terms of Mancur Olson's roving vs. stationary bandits theory, which is the main prism through which I view the differential development of institutions in the post-Soviet space. Ages ago, I read Jeff Sach's... Read More
BHL vs. Houellebecq on Russia
•�January 31, 2019
•�1,100 Words •�97 Comments
Commenter Swedish Family on BHL and Houellebecq on Russia: Seeing Bernard-Henri Lévy's name here made me dig out an old book of his, Public Enemies, a book of Lévy's mail correspondence with novelist Michel Houellebecq in the spring of 2008 (so after Putin's Munich speech but half a year before Lehman Brothers and the war... Read More
AquariusAnon on the Chinese Regions
•�January 17, 2019
•�2,000 Words •�78 Comments
The main popular article on this topic that I am familiar with is Patrick Chovanec's The Nine Nations of China (written in the spirit of Garreau's and Woodard's work on North America). Commenter AquariusAnon provides an update with a focus on China's major cities and their ideological outlooks. His series of comments are reprinted below.... Read More
Huge Collection of Polls on Human Genetic Engein
•�January 17, 2019
•�400 Words •�4 Comments
Ask and ye shall receive! Via Nightfox: Here is a partial list of worldwide opinion polls on genetic editing: Highlights below. (Sample sizes not listed are unavailable.) TL;DR US support for cognitive enhancements collapsed in the 1990s. Support for genetic editing appears to be higher outside the Hajnal line (see Turkey, Italy, Spain). U.K., XI.2017:... Read More
Petre Țuțea on Russians
•�October 29, 2018
•�1,000 Words •�63 Comments
Almost none of Romania's celebrity intellectuals have yet been translated into English (presumably, the fact that most of them - Eminescu, Iorga, Eliade, Cioran, Țuțea - are reactionaries or fascists of some stripe or another played a role in that). Hopefully, this may yet change, at least with respect to Țuțea. This post features a... Read More
Guest Post: Sovieticus Nincompoopus (Or the IYI, Russian-Style)
•�August 23, 2018
•�3,100 Words •�125 Comments
AK: This is a guest post from a friend of mine who... let's just say has spent a lot of time in both Russia and the United States. I can personally vouch for almost of all of these observations. *** Scholars variously assign responsibility for the political demise of the Soviet Union to different world... Read More
A New Martin Luther?
A Russian Conservative on James Damore
•�August 9, 2017
•�2,700 Words •�153 Comments
Prosvirnin is the most talented writer. Limonov has by far the most colorful personality. Dugin has been the most effective at promoting himself in the West. Prokhanov probably has the most name recognition in Russia. Galkovsky created the most powerful memes. Krylov provided the esoteric flavoring. And yet out of all of Russia's right-wing intellectuals,... Read More
Mystery Within An Enigma
•�August 23, 2012
•�100 Words •�2 Comments
mls13 writes: That is actually a very intriguing question. I suppose there's a reason Matryoshka dolls weren't invented in Italy!
Russia's Gastronomic Revolution?
•�June 17, 2012
•�1,000 Words •�22 Comments
Following the precedent I set with Alex Mercouris - why should I write a post on something myself, when one of the commentators has already done something better? - I present this article on Russia's recent gastronomic revolution by Ivan Golov: I can assure you that Russia has been going through a mass gastronomic and... Read More
Maksim Schweiz - It's Time to Shove Off to Belarus!
and •�October 2, 2011
•�1,700 Words •�19 Comments
In the vein of my recent posts on the myth of Russian emigration, I am now publishing a translation of Уехать в Белоруссию ("Go Off To Belarus") by Maksim Schweiz writing for Rosbalt news agency. It is a joint effort by Nils van der Vegte, who blogs with Joera Mulders at Russia Watchers and is... Read More
La Russophobe Strikes Back
•�June 20, 2011
•�400 Words •�9 Comments
Letters, we get letters, we get lots of cards and letters every day. Even fan mail from La Russophobe! Letter to the Editor: Reply to "Given Free Publicity On NTV, Khodorkovsky Only Incriminates Himself Further" (06/11/2011). In a recent blog post, you touted a report about Mikhail Khodorkovsky on state-owned Russian TV channel NTV. Your... Read More
Visualizing the Kremlin Clans
and •�January 19, 2011
•�300 Words •�10 Comments
Can you tell your siloviki from your civiliki? MVD, FSB or GRU? The breeds of dog underneath those Churchillian carpets? If not, maybe this will help. In August 2010, I translated the introduction to political pundit Vladimir Pribylovsky's recent book ВЛАСТЬ-2010: 60 биографий (Power in 2010: 60 biographies). The resulting Phantom Tandem, Real Triumvirate and... Read More
REPRINT: Is Putin Pitiable, or Is the Financial Times Corrupt?
•�December 30, 2010
•�2,700 Words •�14 Comments
A thundering takedown of the Financial Times transparently one-sided coverage of the Khodorkovsky affair -and Khodorkovsky says Putin is ‘pitiable’ can also serve as a palimpsest for Western media coverage of this topic in general - from Eric Kraus at Truth and Beauty. BTW, do feel free to add his blog Truth and Beauty to... Read More
"Guest" Items Across Entire Archive
Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.