Alexander Zubatov, Author at Areo

The masses are respectable hands at fighting, but miserable hands at judging.—G. W. F. Hegel misquoting Goethe Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There…

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Politics

In Defence of Civility

13/02/2020
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Alexander Zubatov

Few states are ruined by any Defect in their Institution, but generally by the Corruption of Manners; against which, the best Institution is no long Security, and without which, a…

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Culture & Media

Politics vs. Aesthetics: Why Great Art Cannot Conform to Our Political Views

26/07/2019
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Alexander Zubatov

Percy Bysshe Shelley proclaimed poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Today, that distinction belongs to Twitter mobs. Dispensing mob justice in brief and brutal 280-character decrees, these sneering Solons…

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Alexander Zubatov

Why More Democracy Is the Last Thing We Need

In Defence of Civility

Politics vs. Aesthetics: Why Great Art Cannot Conform to Our Political Views

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