Svetlana Lourié: Fighter for Historical Idealism

Svetlana Lourié was a pronounced idealist, and not only in the sense of her ardent devotion to the Orthodox Christian faith, but also in terms of her philosophy of history. For her, the most important thing in an ethnos – and in general, the most important thing in any socio-historical community -- was its religious component …

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Boris Mezhuev
Island Russia? A Conversation with Boris Mezhuev on the Possibilities for a Settlement with the West

… Tsymburski’s vision differs markedly from that of both Dugin and Solovyov. If Dugin wishes to return, in a certain respect, to the norm that endured from the reign of Peter I until 1991 (namely, that of an empire within Eurasia), and Solovyov wanted to reunify the Roman and Byzantine halves of Christendom, Tsymburski’s vision, as outlined in a volume called Island Russia, describes as its ideal a Russia within the far narrower borders that preceded Peter I, and that, as it happens, closely match Russia’s present-day outlines.

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Paul Grenier
A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth

… even just cars and highways can destroy a civilization. What is your sense of how to tell which technologies are destructive, and which not? More importantly, how would you define technological civilization, what it is?

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Paul Grenier