an issue is it’s entirely plausible that my and Vladimir Putin’s interests are better aligned than mine and Anne Applebaum or Franklin Foer’s

saying this Institutional Conservatism was for a while giving me the entry-level “schmooze and drink with the sexy scionesses of post-Soviet Europe” treatment

it was no Taglit but it was at least trying

the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: it was at least trying

(produced this out of the experience, so huh)