Democracy: The Failure of a System become Religion
07.06.2022
What is democracy? The answer given by civics textbooks and constitutional law treatises has the merit of being simple.
Political philosophy
Geopolitical Procrastination
03.06.2022
Carl von Clausewitz’s formula that war is the continuation of politics by other means is reinforced in the 21st century by geoeconomics, where supply chains, promising technologies and control over financial and other assets simply compel decision
Moral Computers? Trusting AI with Right and Wrong
24.05.2022
On March 12th, 1992, a light-rail trolley train in service of the Gothenburg, Sweden mass-transit system, got stuck without power at the top of a hill.
Apocalyptic Realism
20.04.2022
We Russians don't need Ukraine. Christ needs it. And that is why we are there.
Three options are being discussed at the top right now:
Robert Kagan’s Selective Memory
14.04.2022
In the pages of Foreign Affairs, the indefatigable Robert Kagan recently weighed in with yet another fervent appeal on behalf of empire. Ever the true-blue American, Kagan avoids using the offensive E-word, of course.
The stakes of the war in Ukraine. A metaphysical perspective
08.03.2022
With the onset of Russia’s vast military operation on the territory of Ukraine, the whole world entered a decisive phase of its history.
Wokeism Is A Cruel And Dangerous Cult
03.02.2022
Wokeism has been described by its critics as the omnipresent use of race—and to a lesser extent, gender—to replace meritocracy and thus ensure equality of result.
The Essence of Power
03.12.2021
Max Weber argued that “power is the likelihood that one actor within social relations will be able to achieve his goal despite opposition” 1… In his book Economy and Society, Weber identifies three types of domination.
Dugin gazes upon modernity with the cold eyes of a wolf
08.11.2021
In Dugin’s analysis, liberalism tends to self-abolition in nihilism, and is able to counteract this fate — if only temporarily — by defining itself against a concrete enemy. Without the war against illiberalism, liberalism reverts to being nothing at all, a free-floating negation without purpose. Therefore, the impending war on Russia is a requirement of liberalism’s intrinsic cultural process. It is a flight from nihilism, which is to say: the history of nihilism propels it.
