273. Cathy Young The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma

Published: May 21, 2022, 7 a.m.

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Shermer and Young discuss: Florida\\u2019s \\u201cDon\\u2019t say \\u2018gay\\u2019\\u201d law \\u2022 What is the appropriate age to discuss sex and gender issues with children? \\u2022 sex, gender, and trans matters \\u2022 Critical Race Theory, race and racism, and age appropriate discussions \\u2022 white privilege and racial profiling \\u2022 social media and political polarization \\u2022 Putin, Russia, and Ukraine \\u2022 Is there a Russian character that differs from that of Europeans or Americans? \\u2022 What is Putin\\u2019s character and what does he want? \\u2022 Aleksandr Dugin: Putin\\u2019s Rasputin and the drive to make Russia great again \\u2022 What happens if Putin succeeds in Ukraine? What if he fails? \\u2022 How should the west treat Russia and Putin in the future? \\u2022 Should Putin be put on trial for war crimes? \\u2022 U.S. foreign policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and elsewhere, and its consequences \\u2022 Could the conflict escalate from armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine to NATO and the U.S. and result in the use of tactical nuclear weapons and in the end global thermonuclear war? \\u2022 What should NATO do now or in the near future? \\u2022 From Soviet USSR to post-1990 Russia to Putin-Russia \\u2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine moral equivalent to U.S. invasion of Iraq? \\u2022 The moral equivalency between American foreign policy and Russian aggression.

Cathy Young is a writer at The Bulwark. She is also a cultural studies fellow at the Cato Institute, a columnist for Newsday, and a contributing editor to Reason. Previously, she was an associate editor at ArcDigital and a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Detroit News, and RealClearPolitics. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Week, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, Quillette, the New Republic, and elsewhere. Young was born in Moscow and came to the United States with her family in 1980 and is the author of two books: Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (Free Press, 1999) and Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (Ticknor & Fields, 1989). She has a B.A. in English from Rutgers University. Follow her on Twitter @CathyYoung63

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