“Day of Wrath, for pity take My sins away from Satan’s grasp And bear my soul to Heaven at last.” — Made in Denmark during World War Two, this film – set four centuries earlier – is heavy with the weight of German occupation, as women are tortured and cajoled into denouncing others […]

  “You needn’t act as if the world had come to an end,” he said, “because it hasn’t. From now on you’ve got to live in a new world and face a few realities for a change. Buck up,” he said, “it won’t kill you.” (Flannery O’Connor – “Everything That Rises Must Converge”) The pace […]

“For rhythm and harmony penetrate deeply into the mind and have a most powerful effect on it, and if education is good, bring balance and fairness, if it is bad, the reverse.” – Plato “It is part of the business of the critic to preserve tradition – where a good tradition exists. It is part […]

Akira Kurosawa’s epic Samurai films are among the greatest movies ever made. But it is a quiet, intimate story about a very different sort of hero, a mid-level bureaucrat confronted with the futility of his own life, that may be the director’s masterpiece. Certainly it’s one of his most spiritual films.

The historical investigations of H.-J. Sieben show that when early Christian authors such as Athanasius insist that church councils be “received,” they do not mean to introduce a democratic style of Church governance but to insist that Christ’s authority, transmitted through tradition, be acknowledged by hierarchy and laity alike.

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Monks in America diversify in brewing beer: There’s a big focus on sustainability and green practices: Local farmers use the spent grain as animal feed and compost, and the brewery […]

    Here is a mid-year report (drawing from D’Angelo’s definitive list). There is a lot yet on the horizon this year, but I really enjoyed the following films and could imagine them jostling for position on a year end list. I also note a few films that have me on the fence or worse. — Blue […]

Mubi has posted an excerpt from a translation of an unfilmed Pasolini script recently published by Verso Books. (Which, of great note, has a preface from Badiou and an introduction by Ward Blanton of all people. Blanton does a lot of interesting interdisciplinary work on NT Studies and continental philosophy.) Verso says in their blurb for the […]

Every year Praxis editor Matthew Shedden (@sheddenm) live tweets the MLB All-Star game as well as puts together a Briefing of interesting links and articles for the midpoint of the season. If you’re made this far into the ASG Briefing but are still skeptical, Will Leitch points out a special thing about the MLB ASG: I love that the […]