Pontvs Academia

Pontvs Podcast

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Pontvs is the podcast of pontvs.academy — once a week, we take something from the library and read it into the open air. An essay, a course, an object from the cabinet of curiosities, turned into a single episode you can follow on a walk. History, science, art, and the occasional wonder that fits no shelf. No prerequisites, no jargon for its own sake — just one good thing, properly told. Per visum ad scientiam. pontvs.academy Sequere nos on X: @pontvsacademia

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Tridentine Mass vs. Novus Ordo 05.07.2026 22:22

In 1969, Paul VI's new Mass swept aside a rite that had stood for centuries — and split the Catholic Church along a fault line that still runs today. This episode traces the long war between the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo: from Archbishop Lefebvre's resistance, through the opposing policies of Benedict XVI and Francis, to its revival under the new pope, Leo XIV. We break d...

Under the Red Flag Against the Bolsheviks 28.06.2026 22:50

In 1918, KOMUCH — the "democratic counter-revolution" — tried to challenge the Bolsheviks on their own terms, fighting under a red flag to restore the dissolved Constituent Assembly. Backed by the Czechoslovak Legion and holding Russia's gold reserve, this socialist government sought a "third path" for Russia. But internal contradictions — especially the distrust between s...

The Alphabet of Hatred 20.06.2026 21:06

In 1917, the political vocabulary of Russia became inseparable from its social conflict. The same words — "democracy," "the people," "the bourgeoisie" — meant different things to different groups, and each reading drew its own line between friend and enemy. This is how the language of the revolution turned, word by word, into a primer of hatred for the civil war to co...