Mostly Aesthetics

The Plague Crucifix

Truth, Justice, Beauty: the three highest goods, right?

May 16 • Brad Skow

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Winged Victory on Foot

Universally recognized as the most important work held in the Louvre, Winged Victory of Samothrace stands atop the Daru staircase.

May 9 • Brad Skow

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The Spirit of a Broken People: French Letters of Denunciation

The Book of Isaiah is full of prophesies.

May 1 • Brad Skow

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April 2026

Disneyland as Art and Representation

Disneyland is criticized, by many, as an expression of the spirit of the 1950s.

Apr 25 • Brad Skow

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Lexington and Concord

Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is the most famous poem about the American Revolution, but it’s mostly myth.

Apr 18 • Brad Skow

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You Too Could Found a Nation and Become its President

John Adams grew up in Braintree, Massachusetts, thirteen miles south of Boston.

Apr 10 • Brad Skow

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Baldur von Schirach Interviewed at Nuremberg

Baldur von Schirach Interviewed at Nuremberg

Apr 4 • Brad Skow

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March 2026

Dionysus and Apollo

My ten-year-old daughter protests and complains, she summons all her suasive efforts, but I remain an Elvis fan.

Mar 28 • Brad Skow

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The Valley of the Shadow of Death

The Nazi prisoners whose letters appear in Dying We Live were German, and Christian, and most of them died for their faith.

Mar 21 • Brad Skow

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Prelude to a Storm

The British Expeditionary Force, 1939-1940

Mar 14 • Brad Skow

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Song as Thoughtwriting

A song can tell a story or sketch a scene, as in “Hearts and Bones,” when Paul Simon sings of

Mar 7 • Brad Skow

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February 2026

Iambic Pentameter as Chicken Sexing

Birds can learn to fly without studying physics, but poets, it seems, cannot write iambic pentameter on instinct alone.

Feb 28 • Brad Skow

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