The Orthodox Nationalist: The Russian Patriarchate

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The last two patriarchs of old Russia: Joachim and Adrian (1674-1700);
• The political theory of the patriarchate;
• The relations between church and state in the patriarchate’s writings;
• The revolt agaisnt Westernization;
• The fall of the Russian church under Peter I.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Afanasy Shchapov (1830-1876)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The social and religious philosophy of Afanasy Shchapov (1830-1876);
• The essence of nationalism;
• sobornost’, properly defined;
• Rousseau’s general will and nationalism;
• Herder and the Slavophiles.

The Orthodox Nationalist: The Optina Elders

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The Optina idea–non-possessorism;
• The non-possessors and Russian medieval philosophy;
• The political thought of the Optina elders.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Russian Peasants and Agrarians (1861-1906)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The Russian peasant mind;
• The rape of Russia by the new capitalists;
• The nature of tsarist bureaucracy and royal power;
• Communal life and education in Russia.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Serbian Philosophy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The history of Serbian philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries;
• Vuk Karadžić, Ilija Garašanin, Nikola Pašić, Svetozar Marković, Nikolaj Velimirović, Justin Popović;
• The metaphysics of labor and national life.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Chekhov and the social origin of mental illness;
• Short stories Ward No. 6 and A Nervous Breakdown;
• These short stories as anti-modernist and anti-bureaucratic;
• Chekhov and the critique of modernism.

The Orthodox Nationalist: René Guénon

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The metaphysics of René Guénon (1886-1951);
• Organisms vs. machines;
• Quality vs. quantity;
• Universality vs. particular;
• Form vs. content.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Metropolitan Ioann (Snychev)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Metropolitan Ioann (Snychev) (1927-1995);
• Russia against the NWO;
• Orthodoxy as the last Christians;
• The Jews and the NWO;
• Capitalism and socialism as two sides of the same coin;
• Monarchy and nationalism.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Listener Questions, Part 2

Matt Johnson discusses listener questions on:

• Ukraine;
• Political theory;
• Comparative politics;
• Family life and surviving post-Christian America.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Lenin, Khrushchev and the Agrarian Reponse

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Lenin and Khrushchev — turning men into machines;
• Agrarian “village prose” as the Russian agricultural response;
• Russian peasants inherently anti-communist;
• The Soviet war on the countryside;
• Khrushchev’s failure to save Soviet industry.

Related shows:

• On Agrarianism, Part 1
• On Agrarianism, Part 2
• On Agrarianism, Part 3

The Orthodox Nationalist: Lev Gumilev and G.W.F. Hegel

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Nationalism and monarchy;
• Lev Gumilev (1912-1992);
• G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831);
• Gumilev on the bio-social genesis of ethnic groups;
• Genetics, evolution and the ethnic idea;
• Hegel on monarchy and its relation to the ethnic consciousness;
• Ethnicity, nationhood and monarchy three elements of the same idea.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontyev (1831-1891)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Leontiev and Nietzsche;
• The Russian Orthodox attack on the bourgeoisie;
• The fraud of “middle class values”;
• The “end of history thesis” and Leontiev’s response;
• The bourgeois as the “universal instrument of global destruction”.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Ukrainian Nationalist Political Thought in the 20th Century

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Eugene Konovalets (1891-1938);
• Stepan Bandera (1909-1959);
• Andrew Melnyk (1890-1964);
• Dmytro Dontsov (1883-1973).

The Orthodox Nationalist: Nikolay Danilevsky (1822-1885)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Danilevsky’s social theory and philosophy of science;
• Civilizational types and political concepts;
• Danilevsky’s critique of Darwin
• The nature of civilization and its purpose.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Lev Alexandrovich Tikhomirov (1852-1923)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The political philosophy of Russian monarchy in Tikhomirov;
• Christian socialism and the Russian commune;
• Tikhomirov on Ukrainian nationalism and the Old Believers.

The Orthodox Nationalist: King Alfred the Great

… and the Making of a Unified England

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Alfred, Edward and Edgar;
• Church and state in Anglo-Saxon England;
• Sts. Odo and Dunstan of Canterbury;
• Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex;
• The Anglo-Orthodox tradition;
• Medieval ethnicity.

The Orthodox Nationalist: The Rise of the Medieval Serbian Empire

Matt Johnson discusses:

• Serbia and Byzantium;
• The role of St. Milutin in Serbian development;
• The decline of Byzantium and the rise of Venice;
• Greco-Slavic civilzation and its importance.

Please check out Matt Johnson’s book Heavenly Serbia and the Medieval Idea, which was discussed in this show.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Matt Johnson on the Antipodean Hour—Distributism

Matt Johnson appeared on the Antipodean Hour with Al Persohn on Oct. 1, 2011. Topics include:

• Nationalist, Christian and revolutionary economics;
• Subsidiarity;
• Distributism;
• Social Credit.

The Orthodox Nationalist: Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

Matt Johnson discusses:

• St. Ireneaus and the ancient Orthodox tradition;
• The development of scripture and tradition;
• How scripture by itself is insufficient.

The Orthodox Nationalist: The Last Hetmans of Ukraine (1667-1803)

Matt Johnson discusses:

• The “eternal peace” between Russia and Poland;
• The 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo;
• The Haidamak Rebellion of 1768;
• The suppression of Ukrainian trade and its economic consequences.