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Some have argued that NATO expansion in the post-Soviet era has forced Putin’s hand. Kotkin, a historian of the U.S.S.R., disagrees. Russia, he says, is just being Russia. (article)
The historian Stephen Kotkin puts Vladimir Putin’s destructive campaign against Ukraine in context, and Campion talks about her Western that isn’t really a Western. (episode)
Some have argued that NATO expansion in the post-Soviet era has forced Putin’s hand. Kotkin, a historian of the U.S.S.R., disagrees. Russia, he says, is just being Russia.
One of cinema’s true auteurs, the director discusses her new film, which is set in the West but not quite a Western.
Blitzer recently profiled the living giant of Brazilian music for The New Yorker. Now he picks some key tracks from Veloso’s vast catalogue that illuminate his long career.