Matthew Dal Santo

Ecclesia and empire: a church historian and the Benedict Option

23 April 2017 10:50 am

In last week’s Spectator, Orthodox writer and conservative polemicist Rod Dreher invoked Scottish philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre to call on Christians…

Russia’s modern Reds and Whites

27 March 2017 9:12 pm

This year’s centenary of the 1917 Revolution always had the potential to expose underlying but usually concealed friction within the…

In defence of the Romanovs: the centenary of the February Revolution

15 March 2017 4:08 pm

A century ago today, as the Imperial Train sat impounded at a provincial station 180 miles from Petrograd, Russia’s last…

Full circle after 65 years on the throne

6 February 2017 5:33 pm

The first British (and Australian) monarch to spend sixty-five years on the Throne, today Her Majesty the Queen celebrates her ‘Blue Sapphire…