2026 on Tom Hickerson's Sitehttps://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/2026/Recent content in 2026 on Tom Hickerson's SiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright 2023-2026Tue, 05 May 2026 16:18:23 +0200Briefly, On Bard Collegehttps://tomhickerson.com/en/posts/en/2026-05-leon-and-bard/Tue, 05 May 2026 16:18:23 +0200https://tomhickerson.com/en/posts/en/2026-05-leon-and-bard/After 51 years as Bard College’s President, Leon Botstein announced his resignation last Friday. This happened days after the release of the independent WilmerHale report on his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who Botstein had courted for donations relentlessly, even after Epstein’s conviction. My own relationship with Bard is now very distant; I attended Bard from 1989 to 1991 and participated in its first exchange program with St. Petersburg, Russia’s Herzen Institute, establishing a foothold for Bard and its relationship with the Smolny Institute years later.Briefly, On The Oscarshttps://tomhickerson.com/en/posts/en/2026-03-on-the-oscars/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:57:23 +0200https://tomhickerson.com/en/posts/en/2026-03-on-the-oscars/I woke up this morning to the news that Mr Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award. I believe the acceptance speech included this quote: “In the name of our future, in the name of all our children, stop all of these wars now.” I have not seen the film; I have shied away from all documentaries actually, because I’m living it in eastern Ukraine. I have not seen any of the films nominated, I haven’t seen most of the ceremony, but maybe I’ll find some time to do so later.Four Years Later: Whatever This Is, We're Still In The Middle Of Ithttps://tomhickerson.com/en/posts/en/2026-02-four-years/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:18:23 +0200https://tomhickerson.com/en/posts/en/2026-02-four-years/I’m writing this post late, because frankly February 24th this time around was much darker than the years before. Today is actually March 16th. The weather is nicer, the electricity is (more or less) on all the time, we are beating back Russian forces in the southeast. However, it’s darker in other parts of the world still. So to lighten the mood, I am posting pics of Kharkiv from much happier times.