The Sistine Chapel. (Photo by Richard Mortel [CC BY])
The Sistine Chapel. (Photo by Richard Mortel [CC BY])
In preparation for my first visit to Rome, I recently watched a documentary about the Sistine Chapel. It explained how the frescoes on the southern wall depict scenes from the life of Moses, while those on the northern wall show the life of Christ — all paired in deliberate, meaningful ways. On the ceiling, of course, are Michelangelo’s magnificent scenes of the Old Testament. (more…)
Hank Willis Thomas, The Embrace
Hank Willis Thomas, The Embrace
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On April 15, the day my bank check landed in the Treasury Department’s post office box to perhaps help fund the welfare state or assist in promoting multiracialism and transgenderism at home and abroad, I was running the 128th Boston Marathon — the oldest annual marathon in the world. To be selected to run Boston, one must run a designated qualifying time standard at an earlier marathon. (more…)
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Daniel Kevles
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985
It is young men like you, Bertie, who make the person with the future of the race at heart despair. Cursed with too much money, you fritter away in idle selfishness a life which might have been made useful, helpful and profitable. You do nothing but waste your time on frivolous pleasures. You are simply an anti-social animal, a drone. Bertie, it is imperative that you marry. — P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) (more…)