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May 2016

May 01, 2016

Happy May Day (Resurrection Sunday) to the Russian Orthodox!

Товарищ, Христос воскрес! Воистину воскрес! Happy May Day, Resurrection camp starts today. The wonderful thing about...

May 08, 2015

Greatest Generation? Russia Is Right, VE Day Was No Simple American Victory

Tom Brokaw's great myth-building volume, The Great Generation, seeped into the American consciousness a couple...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Holy Orthodox Mother Russia? Let’s Compare it to Quebec!

Quebec is usually cited as one of the most shocking examples of rapid secularization. The...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Hope Abandoned: Something Rotten in Putin’s Russia Besides Nemtsov’s Corpse

"Killing Hope in Putin's Russia" could be one of the most depressing reads of the...

January 2015

January 08, 2015

Will We Once Again Enlist Islam Against Western Extremism?

Yesterday's piece on Ryan Bell (the pastor who became an atheist) made it seem like...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Psychopolitics: Schmitt, Bush’s Iraq Mess, and the Saddam Solution

Carl Schmitt who was one of those extremely bad Catholics like Heidegger who...

September 22, 2014

All the Best to the Russians, But I Am Profoundly Skeptical

The Merton Annual asked me to write a piece about the Thomas Merton - Czeslaw...

March 2014

March 07, 2014

Cross-Kremlin-Orthodoxy: Conservative (Non)Moments Near Catholiclandia

The rumors of Russia's Conservative Moment remain rumors. The return of Holy Orthodox Russia is...

December 2013

December 09, 2013

Between the Icon and the Idol: What and Before Whom We Have Bowed?

Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen is director of the Slavic Department at the International Center for the...