by Alexander Zubatov Anyone who is sensitive to the environment in which we live cannot avoid having noticed that even as our culture has become more and more restrictive and censorious in the domain of core freedoms of speech and expression tracking the dimensions of race, gender, sexuality and other…

Including My Draft Letter for You to Use to Tell Those Individuals, Institutions, Associations and Organizations to Stop Lecturing You and Keep Their Race-Baiting to Themselves — by Alexander Zubatov If you have an e-mail address, in the past few weeks, you have likely been bombarded by e-mails from universities, schools, preschools, other organizations and corporations large and small telling you how concerned they are about “systemic racism,” how they stand with #BlackLivesMatter and how proactive they…

by Alexander Zubatov This should have been easy. The footage of Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee pressing on a handcuffed George Floyd’s neck for eight minutes as the latter struggled to breathe had a way of bringing everyone together. Liberals condemned Chauvin’s actions. Conservatives condemned Chauvin’s actions. Other cops condemned Chauvin’s…

by Alexander Zubatov There is a sinister epidemic afoot, but I’m not thinking of the one we’re all talking about. There is another one that arose some time before Covid-19 hit our shores and that is more than likely to continue its insidious spread long after Covid-19 is relegated to…

by Alexander Zubatov President’s Trump oft-repeated statement that the “media is the enemy of the people” has been deliberately misinterpreted by the media establishment as a suggestion that Trump is against the free press as such or that the media is inherently evil. In fact, it is no more and…

For anyone who’s interested, I have a new article up at Areo: Politics vs. Aesthetics: Why Great Art Cannot Conform to Our Political Views - Areo Percy Bysshe Shelley proclaimed poets "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Today, that distinction belongs to…areomagazine.com A bunch of other writers and thinkers have remarked on the fact that art is becoming increasingly politicized in our current culture — in other words, that art is increasingly being judged for its political content or for…

Why Trump Is the Only Thing Standing Between Us and Total Barbarism — by Alexander Zubatov I keep having to remind myself that I’m not a conservative. In the current political environment, however, it keeps on getting harder. I support many ideas that aren’t traditionally conservative: I’m pro universal healthcare. I’m against allowing private insurance companies to realize massive profits while driving our…

by Alexander Zubatov In December 2008, shortly after the election that brought Barack Obama to the White House, the prominent African-American linguist and commentator John McWhorter wrote an article for Forbes entitled “Racism in America Is Over.” The title was not meant ironically. “[I]n answer to the question, ‘Is America…

and are interested in the topic of the radicalization of academia, this is a new article of mine that just came out today in Areo Magazine: Aesthetic Denialism and the Rise of Acadumbia: Yale, Bloom, English and How It All Went South … The Awakening of a Passion In the early 1990s, when I was in high school, I fell in love with literature and decided I…areomagazine.com I think, for what it’s worth, that it’s one of the better ones I’ve written, so sharing it here for anyone who’s interested. If you read it and like it, please pass it on to anyone else you think might be into it.