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2 Sep 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.01
Today, it is difficult to imagine Chukotka as a place where tens of thousands of people once lived and worked in cities that had schools, hospitals, cinemas, apartment buildings and even a nuclear power plant. The region is now one of the least popul...
2 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments TheEverydayMind $0.02
Sometimes curiosity isn’t curiosity. It’s a tiny emotional permission slip. There is a very specific kind of internet behavior we have all performed while pretending we haven’t. You think about someone you haven’t spoken to in months. Maybe years. So...
1 Sep 2026 8 minute read 1 comment rah $0.08
For pretty much most of the next two weeks I am going back to my hometown and one of the highlights of my visit will occur on 11 September when a number of old school friends and I will get together. We had a similar mini-reunion two years ago during...
1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 1 comment SovietStories $0.05
Today, Magadan is usually imagined as a remote northern city from which people try to move back to the mainland. But a few decades ago, the situation was almost the opposite. People came to Magadan from different parts of the Soviet Union, sometimes...
1 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Ancient Warrior $0.04
A response to my latest post from @Valued-Customer got me thinking about something I didn't really explore in the article itself: independence. His argument was centered around decentralization and how spreading production and capability across indiv...
1 Sep 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Cje95 $0.14
Well, well, well, here we are again in the next iteration of: Does government funding get passed before the end of the fiscal year, or do we have a shutdown (Predyx Market)? Before August recess, the Senate took up, amended, and passed a version of t...
31 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments RomulusNRemus $0.02
Roman Law and Reform Roman law was one of the most important parts of the Roman Empire. As Rome grew and conquered more land, it needed rules that could keep people under control and make the empire easier to govern. Roman laws changed over time, bu...
31 Aug 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Harun Heera $0.01
To break the monotony of daily life and wash away the week's exhaustion, we set out on a sudden new adventure last Thursday. However, this ride was far more special than any other, because the back seat of my bike was occupied by my better half—my wi...
31 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.01
I remember how ordinary the question "Where do you work?" sounded in the Soviet Union. Nobody needed to explain why they were asking. A person's job was simply part of how people understood one another. That may seem strange now, especially in a worl...
31 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Ancient Warrior $0.05
I just published a new long-form piece on Substack. The article starts with a pretty simple distinction: consent and compliance are not the same thing. From there, it gets into coercion, “meaningful choice,” political authority, voting, the “consent...
