In an age when the ego is proclaimed sovereign, the appeal of anarchism is understandable, especially given the spectacular corruption of the establishment. In the online-fueled furor of Ron Paul’s libertarian surge in 2008, young activists lurching from Campaign for Liberty’s …
Tag: Monarchy
A New Symphony
The Russian Federation today is an Orthodox power, even though not a monarchical one. It is a democracy. Authoritarian—not liberal. Orthodox—and not secular. The Church and the State are mutually supportive, the initiative residing in whichever’s sphere the issue at hand …
Gogol & Sacral Monarchy
“The Rule of many is not good. Let there be one ruler, One king.” —Iliad, book II, 203-204 It is possible that there is a further level of national unity, an avenue to which is opened by Holy Orthodoxy. As …
Gogol & The Russian World
Nikolai Gogol is not a writer well-known in the West. The picture of him one gets in English-language sources—Wikipedia and introductions to translations of his fiction—is of a talented but unfulfilled writer. A crypto-Ukrainian nationalist despite never writing in Ukrainian, even …
Ivan Ilyin: On Forms of Sovereignty
In this 1948 essay, Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin (1883-1954) analyzes differing forms of rule, accounting for the history, culture, temperament, and geographic setting of a given nation. Ilyin advocates a position wholly unrecognized by the modern Western conception of universal liberal democracy: …
The Madness of the Cross
Russian historical novelist Natalya Irtenina examines the very modern phenomenon of Christian conviction without faith – an attribute of those who struggle toward God in a godless age, a world suffocated by rationalist constructs and eviscerated by nihilism. The brilliant poet …
Classical Nihilism
It’s a common refrain among self-described conservatives and libertarians in America that both the modern bureaucratic managerial state and mass culture have veered wildly out of control, headed in an ever increasing totalitarian direction, and must some how be reined …
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