Keeping the democracy system working is a lot like herding cattle. Because there are always going to be more of the people (cattle) than rulers (cowboys), it is necessary to move the herd along without the cattle thinking about where they are actually headed. This system has worked for some time but now we seem to be witnessing a situation in many …

Once again it’s time to take a look at our world as viewed through the lens of The Daily Mail. In China a black robot swinging from a noose on a crane suddenly gains sentience and makes a desperate struggle for freedom. Honestly, I kind of know how he feels. Many of you probably listen to this show on your lunch break at your mundane wagie job that…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ In 1971, the CIA wrote a brief, secret report condemning the “antisemitism” from “hardliners” in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At that point, the CIA set its sights on – not the destructio…

Unlike Ukraine, Europe is not experiencing bombs and missiles being dropped on it. Yet even under peacetime conditions, those in charge are finding it more and more difficult to maintain simple things such as keeping the lights on and the trains running. Since the chances of the endemic corruption being addressed are roughly zero, authorities are b…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ Mass society thrives on simple ideas and superficial thinking. The western mass media is an enemy like no other, partly based on ignorance, partly on malice. The mercenary armies that overthrew Assad…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ In the eternal war against the Russian Orthodox world, official historians from Moscow to Boise claim that one of Ivan the Terrible's grave crimes was ordering the murder of Metropolitan Philip of Mo…

The murder of Austin Metcalf by Karmelo Anthony has taken on a life of its own. Driven largely via social media, this story has garnered a lot of attention. However if one steps back you can also see the attempt to control and shape the narrative by what is and isn’t being discussed. In the Christian specific segment this week, we’ll once again ans…

The big news today is the death of Pope Francis. If the media came out and told us that the Pope had returned from the dead, how many people would actually believe it? The Joe Biden people released one of the most lazy and low tier Photoshop efforts since your own humble host attempted to make his own memes back in the day. Seriously, these people …

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ Suddenly, in 2025, the Left has backed corporate-led free trade, suggesting yet again that they have no principles whatsoever. President Trump has used the threats of tariffs on foreign goods to rega…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ This broadcast adds greater detail to a common theme in The Orthodox Nationalist: the destruction of Orthodoxy under the reign of Peter I and his successors in the 18th century. Peter and his intelle…

Today is April 15th which in the U.S. is tax day: the deadline where one must “pay their fair share” to the government. In the Christian specific segment this week, we will consider what it will be like when we leave this world and stand before God and face The Truth. People often imagine those who spent their lives on Earth hardening their hearts …

The news is flooded with various opinions in regards to Trump’s tariff policies, especially when it comes to China. Under normal circumstances the country with the trade deficit will benefit from imposing tariffs, while the country with the trade surplus will not. However this is assuming that the country with the trade deficit has a substantial ma…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ On March 11, 2025, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the Philippine National Police and Interpol on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). He was charge…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ In Part I, the early manifestations of the Soviet failure were discussed, especially the separation of the empire's Jews from the worker's paradise and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Part II deals with…

Are there literal NPCs among us? Today we’ll take a look at what appears to be actual NPC-like behavior displayed by some. While people will tell you that they treasure the idea of having free will, the reality is many long to surrender it. Free will brings with it responsibility and many people would rather not shoulder that responsibility but ins…

The big news today is the stock market line going down. The media is predictably going into hysterics over this but how catastrophic is this exactly? It is amazing that people have on a certain level been sold the idea that the stock market line can go up indefinitely when this notion is obviously absurd. Another curious if not surprising aspect of…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ As President Trump ramps up the rhetoric against China, the oligarchs refuse to realize that they have nothing with which to back it up. China doesn't need the US economically and the American navy i…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ When Matthew Raphael Johnson started college in 1990, the entire Soviet empire began to totter and, very quickly, fell into chaos. This was a unique event in history, since it was a large empire in p…

In this day and age it is incredible that there are still people out there who believe in “Muh free market”. Don’t get it twisted: It’s not that there is anything wrong with the free market, it’s that the free market doesn’t even exist. Whether we are talking about conservatives who believe that if the government would just get out of the way, the …

Looking back (or having lived long enough to simply observe it) a clear pattern emerges as to how this system of compliance operates. A nationwide trauma is imposed upon the public which then allows the system to impose whatever new measures they wish without the pushback they might otherwise encounter. One of these key trauma events was that which…

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ With the arrest of the 2024 presidential election winner Calin Georgescu on the grounds of “rejecting the EU and NATO,” and being “pro-Russian,” Romania, and the EU as a whole, has officially become …

More of Dr. Johnson’s academic work as well as methods by which you can support his work can be found at https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/ This broadcast has been recorded on the Saturday prior to the Fourth Sunday in Lent, 2025. It is appropriate to take some time and look over some of the great Russian ascetic writers of the 20th cent…

Because everything we see in the political realm is theater, when one pays attention obvious patterns soon emerge. When a new level of control is undertaken, the first people targeted will always be those who are the least sympathetic. Of course history demonstrates that it never stops there but that doesn’t stop people from cheering it on and yet …