What will bring about the next revolution? — You can download this essay as PDF. In the waning days of the WW1 one brave lieutenant of the beleaguered Austro-Hungarian army named Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a book designed to demonstrate that “what can be said at all, can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about must be…

At the end of 2020, Liz Truss, a UK government minister, shocked some, and amused others, by mentioning the famous French philosopher Michel Foucault in a highly unusual speech. “While we were taught about racism and sexism, — the Tory minister said, — there was too little time spent making…

The Death of Democracy is yet to be announced. — Man is not born free (sorry, Rousseau): we are not free to choose the circumstances of our birth and may be born into poverty, slavery or a country at war — and then, anyway, will spend our whole lives being lied to, and lying. What if such maxim had been…

Один печально известный западный политик XX века сформулировал одну простую мысль: Запад сможет поддерживать свой высокий жизненный уровень только за счет остального мира, который должен жить на более низком уровне. Он, Адольф Гитлер, не проорал это толпе в качестве лозунга или гиперболы, а рационально изложил на встрече с немецкими промышленниками…

Ten years ago, when I first thought of making a film about Sergei Magnitsky, hardly anyone in the West had heard of him. …

Мы, русские, всегда чего-то ждали. Даже у самых циничных и прагматичных из нас, всегда было какое-то сокровенное ожидание, идеальное видение какого-то будущего, где-то не здесь, где-то там… Это было и в героях чеховских пьес, и в советской интеллигенции, и остаётся, несмотря на прозу капитализма, в русской душе до сих пор. …

The virus propaganda begging the question — “Nothing is more free than the imagination of man, and though it cannot exceed the original stock furnished by the internal and external senses, it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating and dividing these ideas in all the varieties of fiction and vision. …