A Note on ‘Exceptionalism’

All empires and major powers have a strong sense of their own exceptionality, so criticizing Russia in that regard is not reasonable.

Alexander Dugin and the Power of Language

The recent assassination of Alexander Dugin’s daughter has seen a consistent mantra from the Western media; Dugin described as an ‘ideologue’. It is one of those phrases which epitomize the “corruption” of language, for—as language develops—certain terms become sacrosanct, unexamined, plagiarized.