Alexei Khomyakov (1804–60), a poet, philosopher, political theorist and theologian, who was the first to expound the ‘Slavic Christian’ ideal of Sobornost – which might be translated as ‘concordance’, ‘integralism’ or ‘harmony’ – as both a spiritual and a political principle. Khomyakov was equally contemptuous of capitalism and socialism, which he

of two Russian figures—Vladimir Lenin and the much lesser known Vladislav Surkov, a former postmodernist theater director who’s been described as “Putin’s Rasputin” and the Kremlin’s propaganda puppet master—informs many of the troubling political and social dynamics at work in the post-truth era.