About the book of Mark Jurgendimeer about religious violence “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” We do not know who was the first to say this stupidity, but he would have to read the book of the American sociologist Mark JurgenMayer “Religious violence on a global scale”. From it, he would learn that terrorism is Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and does not know ideological boundaries at all. Eduard Lukoyanov tells about this work, recently translated into Russian.

In memory of Dmitry Borisovich Zimin Nine days ago, the outstanding Russian philanthropist Dmitry Zimin passed away. We remember with gratitude everything that he did to support humanitarian knowledge in our country: at the request of Gorky, the text in memory of Dmitry Borisovich was written by Ivan Davydov. Once, it seems, twice I had the opportunity to participate in discussions where Dmitry Borisovich Zimin was among the disputants.

Dmitry Borisov - about the book of historian Michael Gordin At the philistine level, it seems that it is relatively easy to distinguish and separate science from pseudoscience. But, unfortunately (however, is it for sure?), This is rather an illusion - in reality, the issue of this separation is not reduced to simple evidence, but is rooted in the history of philosophy.

Interview with a sociologist and translator Vladimir Nikolaev Students and listeners who happened to attend the lectures of the sociologist Vladimir Nikolaev unanimously talk about this experience in the most reverent images: to broadcast love for their subject - this must be able to.

From the letters of a public woman Teresa Grunwald Nikolai Dobrolyubov When Nekrasov in a poem dedicated to critic Nikolai Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov wrote “consciously worldly pleasure / you rejected, you kept cleanliness”, he undoubtedly for ideological purposes was lucid: Dobrolyubov began to visit the brothels at the university and later repeatedly entered into contact with public women.