“There is not a place left which is free of the disease of sin, all is an ulcer, all a wound, a swelling, all is putrefying, all is hellfire, all is sickness, all is sin, all is a lie, all is deceit, all is cunning, all is treachery, all is guile, all is falsehood, all is illusion, all is a dream, all is vapor, all is smoke, all is bustle, all is vanity, all is delusion.” (St. Ivan Vyshensky of Athos, 1619)
This online journal is a compilation of the academic essays of Professor Matthew Raphael Johnson. Given Russia’s extraordinary rebuke to American liberal arrogance, revisionist work on Russian history is sorely needed. He was the first among English speaking Orthodox writers to understand Putin as a needed balance to the American empire and globalization more generally. In 2009, Dr. Johnson created The Orthodox Nationalist, a well-known series of lectures on all facets of Russian Orthodox history and philosophy. Beginning in March of 2016, TON was reborn under the sponsorship of the Traditionalist Youth Network.
Johnson’s work centers around the delegitimization of the new, globalized capitalist system. This Leviathan is a demonic, serpentine dominion spreading the postmodern acid of American mass-zombification to the world. The neurotic American capitalist has “liberated the individual” so as to create the isolated mass-man, a crippled, malformed cipher largely incapable of higher-order thought. It is the “average American.”
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 focused on anti-modernist social philosophy and defended his dissertation that detailed Michael Oakeshott’s critique of Positivism. He is a former professor of both history and political science at the University of Nebraska (as a graduate student), Penn State University 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.
Dr. Johnson is the author of seven books which include five from Hromada Books, including Sobornosti: Essays on the Old Faith; Heavenly Serbia and the Medieval Idea; Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality: Lectures on Medieval Russia; The Ancient Orthodox Tradition in Russian Literature and The Foreign Policy of Mass Society: The Failure of Western Engagement in the Middle East. And two published by The Barnes Review, The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism and Orthodoxy; ; and Russian Populist: The Political Thought of Vladimir Putin. His latest book is also under Hromada Books, Officially Approved Dissent: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Strategic Ambiguity in His Critique of Modernity.
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Dr. Johnson, due to an ugly divorce he didn’t want, is now substantially in debt. Furthermore, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, the IRS has levied a considerable debt on him as well. Every dime raised from this site is used exclusively for research expenses or debt service. Dr. Johnson’s substantial and growing body of work was accomplished with no institutional support. The continued existence of his work is dependent on your generosity. He despises asking for money and didn’t even want us to put this section up, but in this case, it’s a humiliating necessity.
Interview with Sven Longshanks on Dr. Johnson’s Response to the Orthodox church on accusations of ‘racism’. (September 20 2016)
Recent Articles by Matthew Raphael Johnson
The 1883 Timok Rebellion in Serbia:
Peasant National Anarchism against Finance Capital
A Patristic Glimpse into Our Age:
Antichrist and the End of All Things
A Personal Tribute to Willis A. Carto
(July 17 1926-October 26 2015)
Against “Mute and Dumb Objects” –
Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Kollyvades Fathers
Agrarianism and the Counterrevolution:
The Ideology of Illusion and Modernity
Alienation, Tyranny and Ethnicity:
Notes on Ukraine Under The Revolutionary Yoke
The Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War:
The Myth of Western Anti-Communism
An Outline of Putin’s Success:
Authoritarianism, Tradition and the Survival of Russia
The Annual Colonel James D. McGinley Lecture
Aristotle’s Ideal State, Hierarchy and Happiness
At War with Prometheus:
The Philosophy of Hyhorii Skovoroda
The Beast’s Final Gamble:
Gold, Capitalism and China’s Threat to World Liberalism
Belarus: Stronghold against the West
Beyond the Deceptions of Mundanity:
The Christian Anarchist Thought of
St. Valentin Sventsitsky
Bulgaria in the European Union:
Volen Siderov, Social Nationalism and the Resistance to Dependency
Charlemagne’s Empire:
The Resurrection of Rome on the Ruins of Usurers and Frauds
The Church on Relations with Heretics
Cogitatio Bestia:
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Argument for American Empire in
The Grand Chessboard
The Collectivization of Reality:
The Social Vision of Valentin Rasputin
Communism and Political Terror:
Trotskyism, Stalinism and the West in Revisionist Perspective
The Confrontation between “Josephites” and
“Non-Possessors” as Ideological Wishful Thinking
Confronting Deceit:
Revisionist Essays on the True Nature of the
Soviet Union
Debate with a Psychotic on “Democracy” (2004)
Delegitimizing the Beast:
Solzhenitsyn’s Condemnation of Materialism and Its Western Origins
The Demolition of Civilization:
The Police, Racial Myths and the Media
The Donbass Rebellion and the Political Idea of Novorossiya
Economics And Nationalist Theory
Empire at All Costs:
London, Vienna and the Causes of World War I
Female Entitlement and Academic Corruption on Trial:
The Regime and the Amy Bishop Murders
The Foreign Policy of Mass Society:
The Failure of Western Engagement in the
Islamic World
The Fraud of Bourgeois Christianity:
The Prophets and the Economic
Doctrine of the Orthodox Church
Free Will: Plato, Spinoza and the Hegelian
Synthesis
Freud’s Aesthetics:
Matriarchy, Sublimation and the Surreal
The Heart of the Matter:
Why Do Jewish Elites Hate Europeans?
Hegelian Economics, Metaphysics and the Social
Form of Beauty
The Heresy that Never Was:
The “Ethnophyletism” Hoax, Usury and Historical Illiteracy
Heroes of Postmodernity: The Greek Military Junta of 1967-1974
The Homosexual Perversion:
A Jewish Criminal Simhke for the Postmodern
Corporate Conformist
Human Sin and the Will in Patristic Thought:
Augustine and Clement against the Montanists
Hyperreality in Film:
The Skulls, the X-Files and the Cognitive Dissonance of the Elite
Indicting the Beast:
The Legal Principles of Alexander Lukashenko
Interracial Marriage and Church Doctrine
Involuntary Admissions on Russia from Bertrand Russell
John Henry Newman on Wisdom,
Nominalism and the Foundations of Social Justice
Johnson’s Law and
Media Bias in the Russo-Georgian War of 2008
Judaism in Medieval Novgorod:
The Development of the Russian Orthodox Church
Doctrine on the Jews
Law Without Grace:
The Problems with the Toll House Theory
Lev Tikhomirov on the Jews, Revolution and
The “People’s Will”
Manifestum est Regnum Bestiae:
Euromaidan, Liberal Capitalism and the Ukrainian Debacle
Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Disordered Will:
The Renaissance, Alchemy and Greco-Roman Paganism
Marx and Lenin on the European Revolutions of the 19th Century
Mass Man, Mass Politics, and the Capitalist Order
Metaphysical Economics:
Agrarianism, the Garden of Eden and St. Ephraim the Syrian
The Metaphysics of Archbishop
Nikanor (Brovkovich) of Odessa (1827-1890)
Money Fetishized as Organic:
Christianity, Usury and the Power of Fraud
“Name Worship,” Epistemology and the Abuse of Christian Philosophy
A Revision
Nation and State:
An Extended Definition and Analysis
Nationalism and Orthodoxy in Ukrainian
Political Thought:
The Ontology of Resistance
“Necessary and Sufficient” Ethics:
The Theory of Hegemony in Antonio Gramsci
Nikolai Lossky’s Argument Against Nominalism
Nominalism, Psychology and the Underground Man:
The Revolt against the Mass
Notes on Orthodox Ecclesiology:
Created Grace and the Mystification of Episcopal Power
Officially Approved Dissent:
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Strategic Ambig
The Old Ruthenian1
Struggle:
Orthodoxy and the Unia in Austria-Hungary
Open Letter to the Orthodox, Clerical Authors of the
“Statement Concerning the Sin of Racism”
Paganism is not a Religion:
The Social Significance of the Ancient Gods
Plato’s Gorgias as a Premodern Attack on Modernity
Postmodern Empire:
Dependence, Debt and the Nature of Anti-Globalist Resistance
Pride and Propaganda:
The Failed Gamble of Patriarch Gabriel of Serbia (1881-1950)
Profit as Rent:
The Federal Reserve, the Gold Standard and the
Disaster of American Monetary Policy
Putin’s Orthodoxy: A Few Ideas about His Religious Views
and the New Russia
Reason and Man’s Devolution into Insanity:
The Social Ontology of Gregory the Great
The Regime:
Usury, Khazaria and the American Mass
Remaking Reality:
Marxism, Mass-Society and Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago
The Roman “Social War,” Democracy
and the Advent of Christianity
Romanesque Architecture and the Symbolic Platonism of the
Medieval World in Europe
Russia and China: A Natural Alliance (2007)
Self-Indulgent Historical Mythology:
The Fantasy of Stalin’s “Antisemitic Russian Nationalism”
Soviet Ideology, Western Delusion and
The Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR
St. Augustine and Friedrich Nietzsche on the Will:
Two Views of Asceticism, Foundationalism and Time
St. Augustine as an Orthodox Father:
Confronting the Philosophical Ineptitude of His Critics
The State as the Enemy of the Ethnos
The Symphony of Authorities in Russian Political Thought:
The Spirit, the Crown and Chalcedon
Thomas Aquinas on Charity:
Citizenship and the Scholastic Idea
Thoughts on Thaumaturgy:
A Few Rudimentary Concepts in Greek Orthodox Metaphysics
To All Bishops, Priests, Deacons and Laymen of the
True Orthodox Church (Autonomous):
To Metropolitan John,
Fr. Enoch and Dn. Joseph Suaiden:
To the Synod of the Autonomous Metropolia:
The Ukrainian Presidential Elections of 2004-5:
Myths and Facts
The Virtual Empire:
The Case of Serbia and the Murder of Milosevic (2006)
Was There a Mongol Yoke?
The Historical Difficulties with the Mongol Invasion of Russia
Wendy Slater’s (1999) “Orthodox Ethic” and the Official Ideology
of the Academia Cognoscenti
Women as the New Nobility:
Feminism, the Rule of Fear and Contempt for Thought
The Wesleyan Revival in England and the Enlightenment:
The Depravity of Total Depravity
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Yet Another Six Million:
The Fable of Pogroms against Jews in Tsarist Russia
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