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2015-02-28T22:31:14-07:00

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

Last updated on: February 28, 2015 at 10:31 pm By Artur Rosman

“Killing Hope in Putin’s Russia” could be one of the most depressing reads of the year if you know nothing about Russian history. Nemtsov’s allies were divided on whom to blame for the murder. Some pointed a finger at the Kremlin, since the crime took place literally just outside its walls, swarming with guards and security cameras. Others suspected the hand of rogue zealots like the Moscow-born former east Ukraine militia leader Igor Strelkov, who returned from Donetsk vowing to... Read more

2015-02-27T14:09:46-07:00

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The West Was Never Western: Creative Plagiarism, Rome, Tracing

Last updated on: February 27, 2015 at 2:09 pm By Artur Rosman

I was recently reminded of a quip in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. His character says: I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. I believe this episode of copying is fruitful for thinking about what so-called Western culture really is and is not. The quip came back to me yesterday during Sam Rocha‘s Catholic Philosophy 101 lecture at the University of Washington’s Newman Center (part... Read more

2015-02-26T14:28:05-07:00

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On Lent and the Martyred Copts: Can Water, Silence, and Desert Coincide?

Last updated on: February 26, 2015 at 2:28 pm By Artur Rosman

Lent is the seasons of going off into the desert and facing temptation. In the Gospel reading for the First Sunday of Lent (MK 1:12-1) the Spirit drives Jesus after his baptism into the dry wastes for forty days where he faces off against the Devil. Jesus resists the temptations of the desert by not becoming drunk with the power the Devil offers him. The early eremitic monastics saw this episode as the key to Christian life. They left the... Read more

2015-02-25T19:57:18-07:00

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Ida and Avoiding Silence at Any Cost

Last updated on: February 25, 2015 at 7:57 pm By Artur Rosman

My initial reflections upon Ida concentrated upon the historical context of the film, about what it reveals about Polish history. This is not to say what the film is all about. It might be even possible that all the discussions about the film, or even the reason why it earned its Oscar, have totally missed the mark of the film’s aim. This is because its real subject is much more perplexing than can immediately countenanced, since it goes against the... Read more

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2015-02-24T13:50:25-07:00

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What’s the One Novel You Need to Read This Year?

Last updated on: February 24, 2015 at 1:50 pm By Artur Rosman

Death Comes for the Deconstructionist lays out the set of confounding problems facing us in the wake of the overwhelming victory of French theory in America’s academia. The plot revolves around the protagonist Jon Mote being called to investigate the death of his former grad school mentor, the deconstructionist, Richard Pratt–something of an academic star a bit past the peak of this popularity. One of Derrida’s most famous dictums was that “there is nothing outside the text,” that every meaning is deferred in... Read more

Death Comes for the Deconstructionist

2015-02-26T10:43:31-07:00

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1 Thing Nobody Noticed about Oscar Best Foreign Film Winner Ida

Last updated on: February 26, 2015 at 10:43 am By Artur Rosman

Great art always shows you more than you are prepared to see. While watching Ida the viewer naturally gravitates toward the main protagonist. In this film Ida‘s struggle to recover her Jewish identity takes center stage. She ultimately discovers her family was killed by the Catholic Polish family that had sheltered them–either out of fear of German reprisals, or hoping to profit from it somehow, or both, or neither. If you want the complexities of Polish history, then there you have... Read more

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2015-02-21T09:56:32-07:00

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Repentance is the Daughter of Hope and the Refusal to Despair

Last updated on: February 21, 2015 at 9:56 am By Artur Rosman

An excerpt from Archbishop Sartain’s A Lenten Pilgrimage that hits all the right notes: Every Lent in the monasteries of the Orthodox Church, a seventh-century work by St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, is read aloud to the monks. With the exception of the Bible, there is no book in Orthodox Christianity that has been studies, copied, and translated more than The Ladder. John Climacus presents holiness as a ladder of thirty steps. Each rung of the ladder reflects a... Read more

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2015-02-20T12:48:09-07:00

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Incarnadine: Playful Poetic Sadness on the Edges of Religious Hope

Last updated on: February 20, 2015 at 12:48 pm By Artur Rosman

Poetry is meant to be performed out loud, just like the liturgy—the connection between these two forms of human expression probably goes to the roots of human history. They are the oldest forms of communication and frequently liturgy was poetry, and poetry was liturgy. This lesson learned and filed away came back to me on my birthday. Mary Szybist was in Seattle doing a reading from her collection Icarnadine sponsored by IMAGE Journal on February 11. This day is also the World Day of the... Read more

2015-02-19T17:40:21-07:00

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Cardinal Burke Dissents: Ashed Foreheads are a Sign of Feminization

Last updated on: February 19, 2015 at 5:40 pm By Artur Rosman

This post might be labeled “comedy,” but it’s serious. Its seriousness flows from a frivolous question. The frivolous question came from a Quebecois Jansenist. It went something like this: “What is it with you Americans and your ash porn on Ash Wednesdays? Normal countries sprinkle ashes onto the hair.” I thought to myself, yes, I do come from one of those normal countries, Poland, and the normal people there sprinkle it in the hair as do the Italians and the... Read more

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2015-02-18T14:09:13-07:00

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What Does The Wolf of Wall Street Teach Us About Faith and Lent?

Last updated on: February 18, 2015 at 2:09 pm By Artur Rosman

Scorsese caught a lot of flack for The Wolf of Wall Street. The critics said that he made the life of blue-collar crime seem too fun and sexy. I bought into the criticism. That’s precisely the reason why I wanted to see them film. My analysis of ISIS probably suggested to you that the ex-seminarian Scorsese’s films are an obsession of mine. It’s true. They are marked, to borrow the title of a favorite cinema criticism book, an afterimage of... Read more

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