THE SUBURBS - by Evgenia - NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
The secret to the American character (a subtle tribute to David Lynch and David Graeber)| www.nefariousrussians.com
The secret to the American character (a subtle tribute to David Lynch and David Graeber)| www.nefariousrussians.com
We talk about the rise and fall of Red Scare, America’s once-coolest Soviet immigrant podcast.| www.nefariousrussians.com
Since I’m not only a husband but also a PR agent, I want to make sure you know that Evgenia has a very cool event lined up for next weekend in Kingston, upstate New York.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
How to use Soviet wisdom to thrive in uncertain times.| www.nefariousrussians.com
Listen now | We dial Moscow to talk to art curator and philosopher Dmitriy Khvorostov (aka Artur Dugin, son of the infamous Alexander Dugin) about art in Russia and about current attempts by Russians to find a new “sovereign” identity after the war and their rupture with the west.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
A nice person sent me a link to a talk Neil Postman gave on the role that technology has in influencing our culture, our politics, and the way we think.| www.nefariousrussians.com
A political manifesto from mid political influencer Yasha Levine.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
We put on our matching army green outfits to talk to Ori Goldberg — a former academic and a dissident Israeli — about what it’s like to live in a society as it commits genocide.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
In honor of the Trump-Putin Alaska meeting — which took place on what used to be Russian territory sold to the United States and which seems to have been a diplomatic dud (the war will go on) — I would like to repost this old episode Evgenia and I recorded about the ghost of Russia’s presence in California and how Europe and Russia were united in their ecocidal quests for fur, which took the Russian Empire to the New World.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
The growth of nationalist ideologies in the Soviet Union — not just zionism but Russian, Ukrainian, and other kinds of local nationalisms — was a direct result of the slow collapse of Soviet ideology.| www.nefariousrussians.com
We’ve been sitting on this Pistachio Wars news for a bit but haven’t been able to make the announcement.| www.nefariousrussians.com
We had filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov on again to talk Russian politics in the age of war and global realignment.| www.nefariousrussians.com
I haven’t been sending out much these few weeks because I’ve gotten sucked into a different type of writing: writing a script and doing research for the first episode of The Vampire Castle…what I hope will become a short series about the origins of the internet and the nefarious cultural and political forces that are embedded in this technology.| www.nefariousrussians.com
Commodification of dissent: How Nadya of Pussy Riot joined the Clergy of the Mall| www.nefariousrussians.com
A newsletter and a bedtime podcast attached. We are from your future. Click to read NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| www.nefariousrussians.com
Here’s what Matt hopes you don't remember: When the cancel mob came for him, he was the "upper class Twitter Robespierre" ratting on his colleagues.| www.nefariousrussians.com
We have a great time chatting with historian Greg Grandin about the end of the American Myth, collapse, America’s war against itself, Clinton and MAGA, how the USSR propped up the social welfare state both in America and Europe, toxic nationalism vs universal nationalism, individualism under capitalism vs communism, Israel…and a bunch of other things that are on our minds.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
We’re taking our NYC show on the DEATH OF JOURNALISM on the road.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
Saw the new Eric Adams video where he jokes about traveling to Ankara, making a ref to the corruption case against him that he got paid off by Turkey.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
The internet's life sucking power.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
Evgenia joins me on the phone from the Duchy of Moscow for a late night convo about what’s happening in Russia and about what to her feels like the dawn of a new era for Russian society.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
Evgenia had the great idea of reading Ilf and Petrov’s One-storied America for our next book club discussion.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
Been thinking about an internet film — a film about a technology that was developed to wage a war communism and now is being used to wage a war on us.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
A sneak peek at a documentary I want to make. For subscribers only.| www.nefariousrussians.com
Matt’s political “convictions” were always tied to where the opportunity and adulation was coming from.| www.nefariousrussians.com
Some thoughts about citizenship and protection on this very merry Fourth of July. (WYSK. 7/4/25)| www.nefariousrussians.com
His critique of our industrial civilization seems correct to me. But his solution — which calls for a movement to destroy the foundations of our advanced technological society — doesn’t seem like it will succeed.| www.nefariousrussians.com
California is an oligarchy, exhibit #197,209,008| www.nefariousrussians.com
Listen now | People compare Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin.| www.nefariousrussians.com
Politics in the age of stupidity. Against the senile vibe shift.| www.nefariousrussians.com
