NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS | Yasha Levine | Substack
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
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
We’re posting part two of our conversation with Dmitriy Khvorostov (aka Artur Dugin, son of Alexander Dugin) about politics, art, and culture in Russia today — specifically we discuss what Russian traditionalists think about America’s new right.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
I sympathize because I’m one of them. For them — for us — the lifting of the curse isn’t liberation…it’s an attack.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
The Spectacle won’t be made flesh. It is flesh. Always has been flesh.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
What You Should Know — 05/8/2025| www.nefariousrussians.com
Where I connect Trump, Epstein, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Dasha Nekrasova, and the Book of Enoch.| www.nefariousrussians.com
We had a small 35th anniversary screening of Ghost at Kingston last Saturday and I had a talk with Bruce Joel Rubin, who wrote the screenplay and won an Oscar for it.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
A YASHA LEVINE VAMIRE CASTLE TRANSMISSION| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Spectacle and our psychotic influencer society lately...and then Charlie Kirk got assassinated.| NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
Journalists have a very high opinion of themselves. They see themselves as guardians of democracy and constantly give each other prizes. But the modern news industry helped destroy democracy.| www.nefariousrussians.com
The secret to the American character (a subtle tribute to David Lynch and David Graeber)| 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.| www.nefariousrussians.com
We’re taking our NYC show on the DEATH OF JOURNALISM on the road.| www.nefariousrussians.com
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.| www.nefariousrussians.com
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
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
