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No, Iran Isn't "Worse" Than the Saudis
•�January 9, 2016
•�600 Words •�26 Comments
This is an argument that is doing the rounds on the Internet after Iran's condemnation of the Saudi execution of 47 people (including at least 4 "politicals") to mark the New Year and the ensuing breakdown in Iranian-Saudi diplomatic ties. After all, they say, Iran executes a lot more people than the Saudis. � One... Read More
Translation: Vladimir Kolokoltsev - "The Death Penalty Is Society's Normal Reaction"
•�February 12, 2013
•�800 Words
In an interview with Dmitry Nadezhdin, Russia's chief police officer says that he, as a citizen - if not as a government Minister - supports the return of the death penalty for the worst crimes. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that it ain't happening. The Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev gave an interview to NTV, in... Read More
UC Berkeley Is Liberal LOL
•�August 28, 2012
•�400 Words •�6 Comments
From the rhetoric, you'd think the People's Republic of Berkeley was a sickle short of Communism. In reality however the university itself is fairly standard, probably no more radical than any other in the US. I sat in on a political economy class today (full of PE majors who are in general quite leftist) and... Read More
The Death Penalty: It's Conditional
•�August 12, 2012
•�400 Words •�9 Comments
User Jennifer Hor writes: My highlights. The death penalty is expensive in America only because it chooses to make it so. I'm not much against that because the US is also clearly rich enough to afford the process. The only problem of course is that it in effect nullifies the deterrent value of the DP.... Read More
IQ Is A Social Construct Except When It Isn't
•�August 10, 2012
•�100 Words •�7 Comments
That is, when it happens to show that someone is a mental retard and as such shouldn't be executed for murder. Just the old liberal hamster wheel logic in action. I'm actually quite indifferent to the DP. But I'm not indifferent to using mental retardation as a defense. If anything it is more of a... Read More
National Comparisons: Freedom and Security
•�April 5, 2011
•�6,500 Words •�15 Comments
In the first part of my series comparing Russia, Britain and the US, I am going to look at their levels of social freedoms. While political scientists go on about to what extent a country has "democracy" or "rule of law", this ignores that these arcane concepts have practically zero relevance to the everyday lives... Read More
What I Believe: 2 Year Update
•�January 26, 2010
•�2,700 Words •�8 Comments
I've remembered about the article What We Believe I wrote two years back, in the early days when I was still writing anonymously (as "stalker") and was pretending to be a team. Had fun rereading it, almost like a time machine. My views on Russia have remained mostly unchanged. I've grown to become somewhat more... Read More
Voice of the People Part 3, Cont.
•�January 3, 2010
•�3,900 Words •�3 Comments
This is a summary of opinion polls conducted by the Levada-Center, Russia's Gallup, since February 2009, and continues on from the first post. Along with the original post Lovely Levada, this series constitutes a unique English-language reference for social trends under late Putinism as expressed by the Russian people themselves, rather than the limousine liberals,... Read More
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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.