Monthly Archives: March 2022

Is Putin a Romantic?

Posted on Sunday, 13 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found it quite difficult to recollect myself for Mass this morning as a thought kept stabbing into my mind – the similarity between Aleksandr Dugin’s ideas, representing Russian and European New-Right traditionalism and Romanticism, at least on the surface. … Continue reading →

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Pushkin, not Putin

Posted on Saturday, 12 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I try to understand the present crisis in philosophical terms. I am alarmed about Russia and its culture being “cancelled” and demonised. Like most people in the part of the world where I live, I believe that Putin is wrong … Continue reading →

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The Long Table

Posted on Tuesday, 8 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A number of journalists have wondered why Putin only talks to people from each end of an enormously long table.Perhaps it is to avoid assassination by poisoning, something for which the Russians (or at least the re-named KGB and dark … Continue reading →

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