Andrei Babitsky about how thousands of hills in Rwanda called the end of the bloody regime calling for mass murders Photo: James Wakibia/Sopa Images/Lightroquet Via Getty Images In The Hague, the trial of Felicien Kabuga began, who had been hiding from the international wanted list for more than twenty years.

Conversation of journalist Andrei Babitsky and writer Oliver Morton In early December, the Polytechnic Museum spent a book week, to which a British journalist and writer Oliver Morton was invited as a special guest. In 2020, the Russian translation of his book “ Moon. The story of the future ”was just published in the series“ The Books of Politha ”, so Morton acted as an expert on the Moon - this topic was devoted to the questions that journalist Andrei Babitsky asked him.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. When you need to shut up when to speak out, and when to fight. How to choose a resistance method? Katya Krongauz and Andrei Babitsky discuss different lines of behavior in situations where you have to deal with injustice (and sometimes for survival). Is publicity always useful? As in the film "In the Spotlight) or in the situation with the seduction of schoolchildren by teachers Is it possible to predict damage from your own heroism?

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. All ethical issues of the “black mirror”: about evil, death and reputation Katya Krongauz and Andrei Babitsky completely devoted the next release of their podcast to the series “Black Mirror”, in which the moral and ethical problems of mankind are considered through the prism of new technologies. How objective picture does our memories give? And if you record them on the video?

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. What is true? And the post -truth? Katya Krongauz and Andrei Babitsky talk about what the post -truth is, starting from the classic thriller “Gaslight”, from which the term “Gazlaling” arose. And then they discuss several more films and series, where the truth does not equal the truth, because each hero has its own. Can you always believe the testimony of the child? What about the victims of aggression, the perception of which is distorted?

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Man is he still good or bad? Katya Krongauz and Andrei Babitsky are discussing whether a person is bad or good by nature. Why do some people like to kill and rape when they fall into the “world of the Wild West”? Does this mean that the same people experience the same craving for violence in the real world? What good can you teach to watch TV shows about maniacs and reading their biographies?

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Violation of the commandments and joke about gays is normal? What is the norm in general? Katya Krongauz and Andrei Babitsky in the next issue of ethical podcast are discussing the fundamental issue - what is the norm? And they monitor the films, TV shows and books when the ideas about the norm are changing. Why is the heroes of the "theory of the Big Bang" allowed to make an incorrectly joke?

Andrei Babitsky explains why talking about values ​​is more interesting than discussing news SHUTTERSTOCK Inliberty, with the support of Medusa, launches a cycle of public discussions “ Great Disputes ”.

Today, the Nobel laureate turns 85 years old. In an archival interview, he talks about Putin, referendum in Catalonia and people who make history Mario Vargas Llos. Photo: DPA / TASS Mario Vargas Llos is a rare big writer who not only seriously believes that a creative person should make the world better, but also lives in accordance with this principle. So much so that in 1990 he even put up his candidate for President Peru and won the first tour, but lost in the second.

Andrey Babitsky about the book by Lev Danilkin “Gorky” continues the series of materials about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Historian Alexander Shubin spoke about the evolution of the biographies of the leader of the Russian revolution, and from the anthology “Lenin on Culture and Art,” prepared in 1938 by Mikhail Lifshits, we selected Lenin’s thoughts on literature. We are publishing a second review of Lenin’s biography from Lev Danilkin, written by Andrei Babitsky.

It would be an exaggeration to believe that only schoolchildren and students took part in Sunday’s rally, but many commentators proceed from this. “Teenage rebellion,” some write, “lack of prospects and social elevators,” others echo. Still others—for example, Andrei Loshak—speak in the spirit that Navalny was able to reach young people by winning competition from television, learned to speak the same language with them, and thus brought them out onto the streets.

Comedian Louis C.K. once gave a wonderful monologue about people who can't accept the fact that wi-fi doesn't work well on an airplane at 30,000 feet. As he aptly observes, we live in a time of the most amazing technological advances, benefiting the most ungrateful generation in the history of the earth. How can a person sitting in a chair in the middle of the endless sky and receiving the Internet from space like manna from heaven complain about anything at all?

On Sunday there was a scandal . In the match of the bandy championship, which determined the breakdown of starting pairs in the playoffs, they met Arkhangelsk “Vodnik”, which, by coincidence of tournament fate, would have been more profitable to lose, and Irkutsk “Baikal”, practically devoid of tournament motivation. During the first half, the teams kicked the ball around the ice, not really trying to feign sporting enthusiasm.

Andrey Babitsky-about what zombies are ideas and why should they fight with them Photo: Elena_ri / Flickr (CC by-NC-ND 2.0) The INLIBERTY educational project, with the support of Medusa and DI Telegraph, begins a series of public lectures “Zombie ideas”, dedicated to dead theories that continue to spoil people's lives. The co -author of the project Andrei Babitsky explains what kind of ideas these are and why fight them.