Velázquez, Juan Bautista del Mazo, and the True Origins of Bourgeois Individualism
The most striking difference between “Las Meninas” and Mazo’s “Familia del pintor” is the juxtaposition of families depicted.
The most striking difference between “Las Meninas” and Mazo’s “Familia del pintor” is the juxtaposition of families depicted.
In recovering a superior science of human action, we will nourish a more reasonable politics. Cicero points the way.
In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.
Popper’s falsification theory could help combat data-free ideas that undermine our societies.
It becomes difficult to distinguish civilisation from savagery when elements of both lie intermingled in our midst.
The churches Serra founded represent the last reach of the old order in the New World.
Britain, like Europe, is suffering from a spiritual decay which manifests in the deterioration of its built environment.
To escape the cycle of hysterics, we need to recover an ancient approach to politics.
It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.
In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.
Popper’s falsification theory could help combat data-free ideas that undermine our societies.
It becomes difficult to distinguish civilisation from savagery when elements of both lie intermingled in our midst.
The churches Serra founded represent the last reach of the old order in the New World.
Britain, like Europe, is suffering from a spiritual decay which manifests in the deterioration of its built environment.
To escape the cycle of hysterics, we need to recover an ancient approach to politics.
It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.
Modern architecture is meant to transform human beings into alien beings upon their own former home-world.
Musk is right to attack replacement migration, but he should push his own logic a little further.
Two stories of young kings provide a surprisingly prescient lesson for politics today.
I understand that by reading late in the night, I am transformed into what I am reading.
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