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The Plague Crucifix
Truth, Justice, Beauty: the three highest goods, right?
May 16
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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
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Brad Skow
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Disneyland as Art and Representation
Disneyland is criticized, by many, as an expression of the spirit of the 1950s.
Apr 25
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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
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Brad Skow
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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
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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
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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
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Brad Skow
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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
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Essays on Meter in Poetry
What is iambic pentameter?
Feb 26
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Brad Skow
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Sonata as Interrogation
I read a lot of philosophers’ writing about music, and some of them really know what they’re talking about:
Feb 21
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Brad Skow
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The Strangers: Occupied France, 1940-1944.
Previously: A Shattered People: The Fall of France, 1940.
Jan 30
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Tell Me What You Really Think
James Reeves published A Short History of English Poetry in 1961, and boy is it fun to read, if you like nastiness, especially that unique nastiness…
Jan 23
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