The Petersburg Principle
“When speaking about Russia,” said the philosopher Chaadayev, Pushkin’s teacher and a man declared insane by the tsarist regime for asking too many questions, “people always assume that they are speaking of a state which is similar to others. In actual fact this is not true at all,” he continued. “Russia is an entirely special…
Salving the World
From Waitsfield to war-torn hot spots, a Doctors Without Borders nurse thinks locally and acts globally
