Sed Intelligere 012

March 2022 Issue

A: The Times They Are a-Changin'

Ukraine, Ukraine!

• What Will Grow Out of a Pocket Full of Sunflower Seeds?

• Trapped in the Large-scale Networks of Power

Letters from Russia

• Russia’s Economic Prospects: The Short-run & The Long-run

• Putin’s war with the Church

• Solzhenitsyn and the Historical Myth-making

A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

• The Birth of Geopolitical Europe

• Give Us All the Refugees, Dammit!

• The History of Sanctions

Within & Without

• Andrey Illarionov, Andrei Kozyrev & Sergey Karaganov

• Stephen Kotkin & Sir Adam Roberts

An Infographic Maker

• Mapped: All the World’s Military Personnel

Ploughman (1933) by Tomáš Andraškovič

B: The Afterwinds

• A Journey to the Origins of COVID-19

• To Kill or Let Die: Life, Economy and Social Agency (Part 1 & Part 2)

C: Echoes From the Past

• Thucydides Was a Realist

• 民主雅典与“地生人”

• 政治与爱的秩序

• Carlyle, Mahan & Gramsci

The Banquet of Cleopatra by Gerard Hoet

D: Homo Sapiens

• Mathematics In The Neolithic Revolution

• Humans Evolved to Play Music

• How Dictionaries Define Us

E: Cliodynamics

• The Voldemort Index

• The Future is Vast

Pilgrimage (c. 1915) by Gonzalo Bilbao Martínez