Megan Buskey
@meganbuskey.bsky.social
Ukrainian history, politics, and culture. I also wrote a book called UKRAINE IS NOT DEAD YET (ibidem, 2023). All views my own.
“For Freud, repetition is a bad thing. He used the word to describe a pathological compulsion to reenact a trauma... Jonathan, however, proposed that there is a good, healthy kind of repetition that takes place between an exemplar and the person whose admiration they inspire.”
Jonathan Lear (1948-2025) | The Point Magazine
Jonathan Lear, who died last month at his home in Hyde Park, Chicago, was, in addition to being a distinguished professor in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and the author of s...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“For Freud, repetition is a bad thing. He used the word to describe a pathological compulsion to reenact a trauma... Jonathan, however, proposed that there is a good, healthy kind of repetition that takes place between an exemplar and the person whose admiration they inspire.”
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Last month in Kyiv, I met up with the writer Artem Chapeye, a pacifist who joined the army in 2022 remains there. His decision exemplifies how Ukrainians are taking matters into their own hands, no matter what Western leaders do. @newrepublic.com
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The Ukrainian Anarchist Pacifist Poet Whom Putin Drove to Take Up Arms
Artem Chapeye once spent his time translating Gandhi and Chomsky and getting published in The New Yorker. Then, in 2022, he joined the army.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Last month in Kyiv, I met up with the writer Artem Chapeye, a pacifist who joined the army in 2022 remains there. His decision exemplifies how Ukrainians are taking matters into their own hands, no matter what Western leaders do. @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
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Free link: on.ft.com/435Cvfi Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Free link: on.ft.com/435Cvfi Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help
“Psychoanalysis is itself a manifestation of love." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
Jonathan Lear, Philosopher Who Embraced Freud, Dies at 76
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October 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
“Psychoanalysis is itself a manifestation of love." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
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Ukrainian gymnast Sasha, who lost her leg to Russian shelling in 2022, just won gold at the Black Sea Cup.
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ukrainian gymnast Sasha, who lost her leg to Russian shelling in 2022, just won gold at the Black Sea Cup.
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Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
By Omer Bartov
October 8, 2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
By Omer Bartov
October 8, 2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
A state of denial
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
By Omer Bartov
October 8, 2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
By Omer Bartov
October 8, 2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
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Striking how far the Russian drones penetrated into Poland. These were no mere trespasses near Polish borders. Map from @thestudyofwar.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Striking how far the Russian drones penetrated into Poland. These were no mere trespasses near Polish borders. Map from @thestudyofwar.bsky.social
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Russia looted his artworks and killed his great-grandson, an artist.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Russia looted his artworks and killed his great-grandson, an artist.
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Book cover designs by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell (c.1930) #WomensArt
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Book cover designs by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell (c.1930) #WomensArt
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Interesting thing about Colbert—something that sets him apart from the other late-night comedy hosts over the decades: Paar, Carson, Leno, Letterman, Conan, the Jimmys, et al.—is his willingness to be entirely candid (while remaining winsome) about his thoughts & feelings on morally weighty matters.
WHAT PUNISHMENTS ARE NOT GIFTS
YouTube video by PHILIP CHIRCOP
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July 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Interesting thing about Colbert—something that sets him apart from the other late-night comedy hosts over the decades: Paar, Carson, Leno, Letterman, Conan, the Jimmys, et al.—is his willingness to be entirely candid (while remaining winsome) about his thoughts & feelings on morally weighty matters.
I’m delighted to be in Vienna this June as a guest of the Institute of Human Sciences, where I’ll be getting some pages together for another nonfiction book project about Ukraine. Drop a line if in Wien! www.iwm.at/fellow/megan...
Megan Buskey
Independent writer and scholar
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June 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I’m delighted to be in Vienna this June as a guest of the Institute of Human Sciences, where I’ll be getting some pages together for another nonfiction book project about Ukraine. Drop a line if in Wien! www.iwm.at/fellow/megan...
"A lot of problematic stuff is sold under the guise of 'help'. Everybody wants to help. What does that mean?" [Smiles]. revisionsjournal.com/en/page/beat...
Profound loss, agency and justice: an interview with psychoanalyst Beatrice Patsalides Hofmann
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May 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"A lot of problematic stuff is sold under the guise of 'help'. Everybody wants to help. What does that mean?" [Smiles]. revisionsjournal.com/en/page/beat...
There are few chronicles of life in Ukraine in the 1990s (a fascinating period), and the novel ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE by Artem Chekh, published this week in English translation by @sevenstories.bsky.social, is unforgettable. IMO one of contemporary Ukrainian literature's best showings in the US.
April 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are few chronicles of life in Ukraine in the 1990s (a fascinating period), and the novel ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE by Artem Chekh, published this week in English translation by @sevenstories.bsky.social, is unforgettable. IMO one of contemporary Ukrainian literature's best showings in the US.
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💢 Zelenskyy said Russia violated the “Easter truce” 2,935 times: 96 assaults, 1,882 attacks on Ukrainian positions (812 with heavy weapons), and over 950 FPV drone strikes. Ukraine’s response, he said, will “mirror” Russian actions.
April 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
💢 Zelenskyy said Russia violated the “Easter truce” 2,935 times: 96 assaults, 1,882 attacks on Ukrainian positions (812 with heavy weapons), and over 950 FPV drone strikes. Ukraine’s response, he said, will “mirror” Russian actions.
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This message just went out to Ukrainians who were told they had to immediately leave the US "in error"
April 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This message just went out to Ukrainians who were told they had to immediately leave the US "in error"
Kira Muratova retrospective coming to Lincoln Center in NYC! www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-a...
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Kira Muratova retrospective coming to Lincoln Center in NYC! www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-a...
I recently saw an extraordinary film by the Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina, It Can't be that Nothing Can Be Returned. Increasingly I think the best ways to capture the agony of the full scale war are to reach for metaphor, fantasy and surrealism as this work does www.instagram.com/p/DHKb3V4O_h...
March 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I recently saw an extraordinary film by the Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina, It Can't be that Nothing Can Be Returned. Increasingly I think the best ways to capture the agony of the full scale war are to reach for metaphor, fantasy and surrealism as this work does www.instagram.com/p/DHKb3V4O_h...
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I’m getting word that the International and Foreign Language Education Office at the Dept. of Ed is very likely being liquidated. In my career I’ve been a part of three successful Title VI NRC/FLAS grants, and wrote/directed a Fulbright-Hays program in 2011. A building block of my career crumbling.
March 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’m getting word that the International and Foreign Language Education Office at the Dept. of Ed is very likely being liquidated. In my career I’ve been a part of three successful Title VI NRC/FLAS grants, and wrote/directed a Fulbright-Hays program in 2011. A building block of my career crumbling.
Jealous of Berkeley dwellers who get to access to this wonderful upcoming survey of Ukrainian cinema bampfa.org/program/ukra...
Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance
The historian Timothy Snyder considers Ukraine to be part of the “bloodlands,” a blighted region in Eastern Europe that was invaded and occupied by the major totalitarian regimes of the twentieth cent...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Jealous of Berkeley dwellers who get to access to this wonderful upcoming survey of Ukrainian cinema bampfa.org/program/ukra...
"Between Tatlin and Malevich, El Lissitzky and Anatol Petrytsky, & the Alexanders Archipenko and Dovzhenko, there was barely a Russian avant-garde without artists of Ukrainian heritage. This show confirms that some things are so overdue they become punctual again." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Should We View Tatlin as a Russian Constructivist or a Ukrainian?
In “Tatlin: Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one—is Volodymyr, not Vladimir.
www.newyorker.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Between Tatlin and Malevich, El Lissitzky and Anatol Petrytsky, & the Alexanders Archipenko and Dovzhenko, there was barely a Russian avant-garde without artists of Ukrainian heritage. This show confirms that some things are so overdue they become punctual again." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Recommended: “What has undermined [Slavic Studies] is less a practical emphasis on Russia than an intellectual Russocentrism that takes two primary forms: one that focuses disproportionately on a minority oppositional culture in the metropole that looks familiar & sympathetic to western eyes…”
“Where Are Your Poets, the Monsters Ask”: Reading Verse in a Genocidal War | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
“Where Are Your Poets, the Monsters Ask”: Reading Verse in a Genocidal War - Volume 83 Issue 3
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March 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Recommended: “What has undermined [Slavic Studies] is less a practical emphasis on Russia than an intellectual Russocentrism that takes two primary forms: one that focuses disproportionately on a minority oppositional culture in the metropole that looks familiar & sympathetic to western eyes…”
Recommended: Top Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski on his work on “landscapes and their transformation, what the landscape says to us, and how the empire manifests itself through the landscape.” www.documentary.org/online-featu...
“Working with Emptiness”: Oleksiy Radynski Discusses His CCTV Chornobyl Doc ‘Special Operation’
Oleksiy Radynski is one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary Ukrainian cinema. He studied culture at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, developing an interest in philosophy and film. In the 2000s, he...
www.documentary.org
March 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Recommended: Top Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski on his work on “landscapes and their transformation, what the landscape says to us, and how the empire manifests itself through the landscape.” www.documentary.org/online-featu...
I find this article deeply frustrating. While, yes, Brighton Beach is home to many people originally born in Soviet Ukraine, it is overwhelming composed to people who left during and in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union and now have U.S. citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/n...
In N.Y.C.’s Ukrainian Enclaves, Trump’s Rebuke Stirs Complex Feelings
The president and vice president’s berating of Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted with a mix of support and outrage.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I find this article deeply frustrating. While, yes, Brighton Beach is home to many people originally born in Soviet Ukraine, it is overwhelming composed to people who left during and in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union and now have U.S. citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/n...
I put together a quick set of suggestions for ways to support Ukraine in the wake of Trump-Zelensky press conference yesterday.
Ukraina SOS Vol 11: Showing Solidarity with Ukraine in the Face of American Aggression
Things to do in the wake of the Zelensky-Trump press conference
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March 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I put together a quick set of suggestions for ways to support Ukraine in the wake of Trump-Zelensky press conference yesterday.
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Whether American policy is pro-Ukrainian or anti-Ukrainian, the Ukrainians pursue a consistent policy of sovereign self-defense. Here’s how that proves that they are just an American proxy.
by John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, and Vladimir Putin
by John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, and Vladimir Putin
February 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Whether American policy is pro-Ukrainian or anti-Ukrainian, the Ukrainians pursue a consistent policy of sovereign self-defense. Here’s how that proves that they are just an American proxy.
by John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, and Vladimir Putin
by John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, and Vladimir Putin