I was greatly impressed by the scandal around the "last address" - Sergey Parkhomenko He spoke in detail about him at Echo, and on his page in FB all the materials are collected more or less. I decided to write about it. It is significant when Alexander Shokhin, the comrade -in -arms of Yegor Gaidar, now the president of the Higher School of Economics, begins to fight the “last address”.

Grigory Revzin We continue to acquaint readers with books included in the long list of the Enlightener Prize 2020. On September 17, eight books will be known that will continue the struggle for the prize. STRELKA PRESS Publishing House represents the book of architectural critic Grigory Revzin "How the city works." It is useful to be able to see and understand the city, without this it is difficult to enjoy it. Sometimes this applies even to the hometown. What is the city made of?

Grigory Revzin told Polit.ru that he considers the most important events of 2018. 1. A noticeable increase in mutual intolerance and hatred. If earlier a large “srach” happened about once every six months, now now almost once a week. Mutual provocation and collective persecution became one of the accepted and everyday forms of behavior. 2. Exposure of a political agenda.

Peter Aven’s book “The Time of Berezovsky” is almost 800 pages of interviews that he interviewed with very different people. My acquaintance with the book began with two interview-reviews of a person who was once very close to Berezovsky, Demyan Kudryavtsev - Gleb Morev on Colta.ru and Alexey Venediktov on Ekho - polemical. I love Demyan and got a specific pleasure from the reviews. His theses in their pure form, in my opinion, are not controversial.

“Bobok in its depths and courage is one of the greatest menippees (from Menipp, the author of Satire) in all world literature,” wrote Mikhail Bakhtin in the work “Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics”. The story of Fedor Dostoevsky “Bobok” in February 1873 was published by the newspaper “Citizen”. Slon Magazine publishes the feuilleton of the same name Grigory Revzin. Methodologists here are people who are scandalous, you know?

This summer was the 50th anniversary of the cultural revolution in China, in connection with which I re-read the “psychology of the peoples and masses” of Gustav Lebon. Let me remind you that Lebon revealed the “crowd” as a special socio-psychological phenomenon. “The scraping of people demonstrates new characteristics that are completely different from the characteristics of the individuals that the crowd consists.

I was going to a rally against declaring Dmitry Zimin a foreign agent, but ended up at a rally in defense of science and education from unnamed obscurantists. Dmitry Zimin personally asked not to hold a rally about him, and it was not held about him - so, they mentioned it in passing as a special case of general obscurantism.