Woody Allan once quipped "I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Some politicians think otherwise. open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

Simple as

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That’s a terrible latte art. I can do a seminar but my membership has lapsed

1) Don’t think I’ve seen Georgia as an origin country for transnational repression before 2) Definitely have never seen Iceland as a host country

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

The real winners in all of this - the Amish

We basically need a NATO but for eggs. Forget the nuclear umbrella, we need a mother hen!

Seeing what’s happening with the latest moves by the Trump administration is like someone brought back Yegor Gaidar from the dead and gave him an office in the West Wing

What is this hell?

Man, Chat GPT is absolutely bonkers about religion in the Soviet Union. Presents Fr. Alexander Men as a KGB agent (he most certainly was not) and that The Flying Spaghetti Monster was created in the 1980s Soviet underground, (It wasn't).

Nothing like an article by the former ambassador of Albania to Azerbaijan about the ancient kingdom of Caucasian Albania in the newspaper Modern Ghana. Two Albanias are unrelated. Or are related much the same way suntan oil and water are

A real missed opportunity there by The Chronicle of Higher Education. A more thoughtful title would be "Her Thesis on the ‘Politics of Smell’ Raised a Stink. Here’s What She Thinks About It." You are welcome

South Korea. Why?

“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances.” Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Genuinely funny and relatable

There are weird dreams and then there’s me playing chess with Vivek Ramaswamy in mine. I think I am going to unplug from news for a while

This is a stupid and meaningless distinction

Seeing this it is 100% certain that Azerbaijan has erased pretty much everything Armenian in the Dadivank Monastery

My review of Sebouh Aslanian's magisterial book "Early Modernity & Mobility: Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512–1800" is now out. You can read it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander over alleged war crimes www.bbc.com/news/article...

Advance reader copies of our latest title have arrived. If you are attending this year's #ASEEES24 in Boston, feel free to drop by our Booth 103-202 to learn more and perhaps claim a free copy (limited availability). Btw, thank you @tonoyan.bsky.social for the photo from Izium on the cover

Canada just opened an embassy in Armenia and the ambassador within months marries a local. Two cheers for the happy couple style.news.am/arm/news/104...

A literal snake oil salesman www.axios.com/2024/11/19/t...

People in New York: you can see my friend Emily Mkrtichian’s extraordinary documentary about four women amidst the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno Karabakh screening this week www.docnyc.net/film/there-w...

The answer to our question (prayer?) go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

Imagine how deeply unserious our foreign policy has to be that a sitting US congressman gets basically terrorized on a foreign trip and our State Department is yet to utter a word of condemnation www.barrons.com/news/us-lawm...

In an ideal world this is how tricke-down economics would work, aided along by the law of universal gravitation

Surprise reminder of my first visit to Armenia, 2003. Cascade was just a bit different back then.

Yacoubian Hobbs Areni 2020 wine from Armenia - “flourished in the high-altitude, mountainous region of Vayots Dzor, where the vines thrive on rocky, mineral-rich volcanic soils” - is on the Top 15 Thanksgiving wines list by @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/hudson...

Trump’s cabinet nominations are basically a saturation attack. Some may not land but a lot will

Scoop from Farnaz Fassihi: Elon Musk met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/w...

RFK’s HHS soon

Tulsi Gabbard would be the first US DNI who has visited Nagorno-Karabakh before the ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan and may still be in Azerbaijan’s blacklist for the visit. www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan...

Shock therapy worked for Russia now trying in the US

Accidental renaissance or more specifically the Deposition of Christ motiff found in paintings from the era like in di Brera’s painting. I feel icky comparing the buffoon in the photo to Christ, though

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With partners in Armenia, today we released a comprehensive report documenting Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh: freedomhouse.org/article/new-...

The Hegelian triad in progress - thesis, antithesis, ... and some sort of synthesis

They're out of tea leaves, so shit's all there's left to read

Forget the pundits. Read this by Robert Wuthnow to understand what happened. Published in 2018, the main arguments in the book still obtain. Explains issues still ignored by the Democratic Party that were as relevant this time around as they were when it first came out.

Welp. One way to recover debts payable

A latter day Prince Potemkin. Good grief, man

Just humiliating. Aliyev will ignore it, that goes without saying, and use the episode to further his grip in the country making a nice PR out of it first. oc-media.org/biden-calls-...

"Seven Israelis, all immigrants from Azerbaijan, were arrested on Monday on charges of espionage for Iran over the past two years, in what authorities describe as one of the most severe security breaches in Israel's history." www.ynetnews.com/article/s1xv...

Max Weber is alive and well and living in Holmes County, Ohio www.wsj.com/us-news/what...

Glad and honored to have contributed to the special issue of Wasafiri dedicated to Armenia and Armenian arts and culture. Can't wait to get my hands on it. www.wasafiri.org/issues/120-w...