Eurasia

Formal and existential law

08.10.2024

The eminent German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt developed the concept of the decision in exceptional circumstances. Ernstfall (exceptional circumstances) is when a political decision is made in circumstances that cannot be governed by existing legal rules; in a situation that is not covered by the available law, or if it is, not sufficiently covered; when acting within the law will lead to significant negative consequences.

The renaissance that Stalin feared

20.09.2024

It is said that history does not know the subjunctive. In reality, it is the bad historians who do not know it. In history there is always a set of options - if this were not true, it would have to be considered a destiny, a super-determined mystical process in which there is neither subject nor free will. History is a clash of wills and a competition of options: as soon as one of them wins, the other options simply fall away. But, as long as there is no winner and there is a struggle, history has a probabilistic character.

Generation D

Generation D
20.08.2024

As the clock strikes midnight, today marks two years since Daria Platonova Dugina became the name of a generation, a turning point, an explosive revelation whose waves are still unfolding.