Showing posts with label heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heritage. Show all posts

Sunday, July 03, 2016

Worlds Apart: Heritage Under Barrage?


Culture wars have long been a popular topic for intellectuals, but over the past six years they have yielded ground to armed fanatics who use hammers and bombs to destroy ideas and heritage not to their liking. Will the so-called civilized world literally have to fight for its culture? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.