BA in Russian Language (Georgetown University),
MA in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (Stanford University).
I study the intersection of political culture, religion and strategic issues, which I approach from a traditionalist-conservative position. Some of my major intellectual influences are Joseph de Maistre, Juan Donoso Cortes, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rene Guenon and Fr. Seraphim Rose. I translate classic Russian political and religious texts.
Author: Mark Hackard
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Can Donald Trump make US-Russia relations great again?
Scientology & the CIA
This presentation was read by Aleksandr Leonidovich Dvorkin, president of the Irinaeus of Lyons Center for Religious Research Studies, on January 26th, 2016, at a conference run by the Orthodox St. Tikhon University for the Humanities. (Translator’s note: While we wouldn’t claim …
Programming Chaos: The Arab Spring
Thanks to an advantageous geographical position set between the world’s two major oceans, Americans have been in large measure immune to the consequences of war, upheaval and terror in the Eurasian Great Game. Since Vietnam the United States military-industrial complex …
Confession of a Samurai
Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa speaks to Russian reporters on his life experience and conversion to Orthodox Christianity.
Ivan Ilyin vs. the NKVD
The great Russian White emigre philosopher Ivan Aleksandrovich Ilyin (1883-1954) was not just an erudite thinker, but also a practitioner of espionage and underground political work. Before he was exiled in 1922, Ilyin was active in the anti-Bolshevik resistance. This …
Dostoevsky: Demonic Rationalism
In his work Dostoevsky and the Metaphysics of Crime, sociologist Dr. Vladislav Arkadyevich Bachinin analyzes the only seemingly contradictory correlation between Enlightenment rationalism and the rise of infernal forces in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work Demons. Translated by Mark Hackard. The Immoral Reason of a …
Ivan Ilyin on Orthodoxy
The great twentieth-century Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin (1883-1954) explains how the Russian nation was not only forged through warfare, but through divine love and beauty – the Orthodox Christian faith. Translated by Mark Hackard. National spiritual culture is created from …
Manifest Disney
As we mark another Independence Day in America, it’s worth reflecting on the meaning of our country’s much-trumpeted exceptional status. Our land is indeed beautiful and blessed in many ways, home to millions of kind and generous souls. But to …
Mark Hackard on Red Ice Radio
I was pleased to be a recent guest on Red Ice Radio with host Henrik Palmgren. We spoke on a variety of topics, most to do with geopolitics, Russia, and the West, as well as Soviet espionage operations in the …
The Soul of the East 
Cold War Cinema
Listen to my friend Jay Dyer and me as we cover Cold War geopolitics and espionage on his program Esoteric Hollywood. Jay and I discuss everything from Mackinder’s Eurasian Heartland Theory to Directorate S (the reality behind the show The …
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