Bogomolov’s Manifesto, “The Rape of Europe 2.0”

Man is a beautiful but also a dangerous creature. Like atomic energy, he possesses both a creative and a destructive power. Controlling this energy, limiting its destructive while also encouraging its creative forces – all this is a lofty task. It is the task of building a complex civilization based on the complexity of man …

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An Introduction to Bogomolov’s ‘The Rape of Europe, 2.0’

A fortnight ago, Russian theater director Konstantin Bogomolov published an essay in Russia’s leading liberal (“anti-Kremlin”) newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, arguing that contemporary Europe had been “raped” or “abducted.” The progressivism of the “Me Too,” gay rights, BLM, and transgender movements, says Bogomolov, is transforming a European civilization that had once prized liberty into a post-human dystopia with an all-pervasive form of mind control at its center …

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The Latent Fascism of Today’s Anti-Fascists

The terms “fascist” and “fascism” are continuously bandied about today. But those who use these words most seem to understand them least, such that many of today’s self-styled anti-fascists paradoxically take on the central features of fascism to an extraordinary degree.

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Aaron Kheriaty
Post-Liberalism as Working Class Conservatism: A Conversation with Patrick Deneen

Boris Mezhuev: From what we know in Russia, in the US you are considered to be one of the leaders of an intellectual movement known as post-liberalism which stands distinct from mainstream conservatism. Would you agree with this and if yes, can you describe the key points of post-liberalism? Does it indeed base itself on rejecting the liberal legacy of John Locke and to a certain extent that of the Founding Fathers?

Patrick Deneen: I am often identified as one of a number of more conservative thinkers who support moving toward “post-liberalism.” These include a number of thinkers in the U.S., England, and Europe who have recently risen to prominence. My book Why Liberalism Failed, provided a relatively early diagnosis of the crisis of liberalism that is now evident to every observer of politics in the West …

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Patrick J. Deneen
Europe’s Gaullist Revival

Despite decades of pronouncements from Brussels and Strasbourg on the primacy of pan-European solidarity and cross-border cooperation, the European Union’s uneven response to the coronavirus pandemic has only strengthened a trend already well under way in Italy, Hungary, and elsewhere, toward a renewal of national sovereignty on the continent.

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James Carden