Author: Sophie Dulesh
Born in Russia, Sophie Dulesh obtained her medical degrees (MD, PhD, Dr Sci) at Moscow University Medical School and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. She worked for 27 years as a pathologist and medical researcher at the Academy before immigrating to Canada with her family in 1980, where she worked as a pathologist for another 23 years. Sophie is the author of two books and many articles on medical research in Russian, and has also written short stories and non-fiction books in English, including The Trouble with Religion and My Red Russia.
On Racism, Religion, Antisemitism and ‘The Story’
To claim that the Israeli existential struggle is “a racial issue” is like suggesting that religious wars that decimated 16th-18th centuries Europe were “a racial issue”. [...]
Your Precious Life is Worth an Effort
I happened to get embroiled in a dispute on the hottest topic of the day – vaccination. It had been so comfortable to consider the issue self-explanatory: vaccination is unique in its effica [...]
Hamas 2023 Strategy+Anti-Semitism
On October 7, 2023, Hamas' terrorists invaded Israel, murdered 1200 civilians, took 240 hostages and then cowardly melted away among Gazans, making civilian human shields for themselves and [...]
Western Civilization in Modernity
"The last 300 years are often depicted as an age of growing secularism, in which religions have increasingly lost their importance. If we are talking about theist religions, this [...]
Patterns of evolving civilizations in history and in our times
What is a civilization? According to Wikipedia, it’s a complex society with “urban areas, shared methods of communication, administrative infrastructure, and division of labor.” [...]
Book Review: Miss Bo Lyell’s Rambles In The New World by M. K. SINGLETON
This is a fictional story of two ladies, Boadeccia (Bo) from Warwickshire and Danica from Leicestershire, young cousins from the old, influential and rich Lyell family. In 1869, they sailed [...]
Book Review: The Upswing (Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn R.Garrett)
An examination of the synchronicity of four major trends in American society over the last 125 years: economic, political, social, and cultural. [...]
Book Review: Three Books by Carlo ROVELLI
In Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland & The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli, a top theoretical physicist and co-author of the quantum loop gravity theory, explains Einstein’s general the [...]
The Islamic Slave Trade – and Some of Its Prominent Victims
We hear a lot about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but very little about the Islamic one, which enslaved 20 million black Africans, with another 80 million dying en route. And how many peop [...]
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