What's Wrong with the West

Given Russia’s extraordinary rebuke to American arrogance since 2000, revisionist work on Russian and Slavic history is sorely needed, especially in conjunction with the critique of globalization. Matthew Raphael Johnson was the first among American Orthodox writers to understand Vladimir Putin as a necessary balance to the American empire and the liberal authoritarianism it enforces. In 2009, he created The Orthodox Nationalist, a well-known series of lectures on all facets of Russian and Orthodox history and philosophy, today featured on Radio Albion. In 1999, Dr. Johnson completed his doctorate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln as a recipient of the Clare and Marguerite MacPhee Fellowship. He studied in the History, Political Science and Philosophy departments. He focused on anti-modernist social philosophy and defended his dissertation on Michael Oakeshott’s critique of Positivism. In addition, he focused on Comparative Politics, specifically the Russian and Ukrainian responses to globalization. He is a former professor of both History and Political Science at the University of Nebraska (as a graduate student), PSU-Mont Alto, and Mount St. Mary’s University. Since 1999, he has been the editor (and is presently Senior Researcher) at The Barnes Review, the famed renegade journal of European history. He's the author of 13 books, mostly on Russian and Slavic history. https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com https://www.rusjournal.org This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beherleader.substack.com/subscribe