About the book: 2018 / Vyacheslav Rybakov is more familiar to readers as a brilliant science fiction writer, creator of "The Hearth on the Tower", "Gravity Plane "Tsarevich"" and Holm van Bunny. However, his journalism is no less convincing than his prose. “Carving the Ideal” is not just a collection of articles compiled from works of recent years, it is a whole book, structured thematically and intonationally, like a single symphony. The range of topics covered is extremely relevant: the right to truth, the right to identity, the results of the liberal-humanistic revolution, which led to a situation where instead of softening morals we get a softening of the brain, as well as a number of other problems that concern concerned contemporaries