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I revisited the Musée Cluny in Paris in November, a compact gem on the Left Bank, home to the gorgeous chivalric fantasy of the Dame à la Licorne tapestries. My eye was struck by an early Gothic statue of the Virgin and child – feeding at her breast. I think this must [...]
Archive for the ‘History’ Category
November 14th, 2009
Category: History
It turns out that studying the reign of Edward I allowed Hume to forsee the history of Bush the Lesser:
That neglect, almost total, of truth and justice, which sovereign states discover in their transactions with each other, is an evil universal and inveterate; is one great source of the misery to which the human race [...]
November 6th, 2009
Category: History, Most interesting thing I learned today
Hume debunks the still-received story.
October 10th, 2009
William Tyndale, victim of Tudor Stalinist history.
July 25th, 2009
The tyrannical origins of civil registration, and a private war on death certificates.
July 15th, 2009
Puritan Massachusetts did penance for the Salem witch trials – but Obama’s America is avoiding itfor torture.
April 29th, 2009
Category: History, Watching Conservatives
You thought that the Tea Partiers couldn’t get any dumber? Guess again.
April 27th, 2009
Category: History
Could there be a better title for a book about the economics of piracy?
April 27th, 2009
If a President is confronted with breaking the law or defending the country, he should look to Abraham Lincoln in 1861 for the right way to handle it.
