Editorial Quick Take Three days before he launched the Russian invasion on Ukraine on February 24, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech that might have sounded to some like a bit of a rambling history lesson, reaching before the Bolsheviks all the way to the present time, with the aim of justifying the war waged on Ukraine here and now in 2022. In it he said, among other things: “Since time immemorial, the people living in the southwest of what has historically been Russian land have called themselves Russians and Orthodox Christians. This was the case before the 17th century, when a portion of this territory rejoined the Russian state, and after.” …
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On Exile, Desire and Happiness
Recent articles of note from around the world wide web.
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O Solomon, I Have Vanquished Thee!
Once a church becomes politicized or commercialized, can it ever reestablish itself as a sacred place?
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“The Passionate Poet to His Reluctant Love”
⎺A New Translation of "Catullus V" by Thomas Roe
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What is the Good Life?
Recent articles of note from around the world wide web.
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Music That Listens to Itself
How does one account for music which follows a plan that hasn’t been made? Music which evolves organically, in real time, into a coherent structure? Talent is one answer, and Taborn has it. Training and experience are also clearly worth acknowledging as necessary foundations for this sort of work. But these answers leave something to be desired.
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New Public Domain Works for 2022
It’s January again, which means thousands of books, films and other copyrighted items entered the public domain and are now free to be appreciated, reprinted or artistically remixed.
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The Twelve Films of Christmas (Film Recommendation)
As we move from the waiting season of Advent to the arrival of Christmas, Veritas Journal is pleased to present “The Twelve Movies of Christmas.”
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On Advent and Advertising
Advertisements tell us, never in so many words, that the answer to the needs of our heart, to the indescribable nostalgia we feel at times, can be found in some finite thing. They get us to put our hope in things that cannot satisfy us.
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Poetry, an Awareness of the World
Recent articles of note from around the world wide web.
