Restoring Sovereignty: A Conversation with Alexander Dugin about Japan

The West is spiraling into chaos. Russia is recovering its civilizational greatness. The difference lies in the life of the mind—or, rather, in the difference between thinking and mindlessness. Russia has learned from bitter experience that philosophy, true thought, is indispensable for human flourishing. The West, by stark contrast, remains mired in destructive anti-thinking (LGBTQ hedonism, Nominalism, wokeism, gender theory, and more), and so is dying. The West needs philosophy, but is it too proud to learn it from Russia, a civilization that the West’s overlords claim (mindlessly) to be an enemy? In this interview, I spoke with Alexander Dugin, one of the greatest living philosophers. Professor Dugin does not traffic in cheap rhetoric, and he does not parrot platitudes. He is erudite, articulate, and deeply interested in, above all things, ideas, and in how those ideas move states and statesmen in a rapidly changing world. Professor Dugin’s vocation is the life of the mind, and not the mindlessness