Kharkiv Rubyist during the war: We are still here
It is amazing how this inspiring willingness to fight for the bare essentials that the West has for so long forgotten the need to be ready to be fight for has  transformed the West and given it meaning again.<p>Reminds me of Leo Strauss, a philosopher often cited by the neoconservatives and therefore of course dismissed by most of us but I think there&#x27;s more nuance in his understanding of the world and this feels to me like a very Straussian moment
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Leo_Strauss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Leo_Strauss</a><p>You are amazing, Ukraine!  Fighting for freedom of thought in a world still half led by visions of totalitarianism. Visions that were not shed decades ago as we falsely believed.