A marble statue carved in the 18th century has become world-renowned for an “impossible” feature: a delicately draping fisherman’s net with detailed knots, rendered by hand entirely from marble, that looks so authentic it could be the real thing. Il Disinganno, or “The Release from Deception,” is the magnum opus of the Genoese artist Francesco…
18th-Century Statue Has a Delicate Net Carved From a Single Slab of Marble—Check Out the Details
Re-Wind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Champ’: Jon Voight’s Searing Portrait of a Doting Dad
PG | 2 h 2 min | Drama | 1979 An over-the-hill boxer, Billy “The Champ” Flynn (Jon Voight) treasures his 8-year-old son, Timothy Joseph or T.J. (Ricky Schroder), while battling his vices of gambling and drinking. Estranged for seven years on account of her careerism and now remarried, the boy’s mother, Annie (Faye Dunaway),…
Book Review: ‘And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle’: Rousing a Nation’s Conscience
Presidents Day is a few weeks away (Feb. 20), as is Ash Wednesday (Feb. 22), which is George Washington’s birthday and the beginning of the Lenten season. Back in 2012, for Presidents Day, a group of Washington historians came up with a unique idea to pay tribute to our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. To physically…
Film Review: ‘Let It Be Morning’: Director Kolirin’s Subtle Commentary on Middle Eastern Borders
NR | 1h 41min | Drama, Comedy | 3 February 2023 (Israel) Not quite as good as his similarly themed “The Band’s Visit” from 2007, director Eran Kolirin’s “Let It Be Morning” (“LIBM”) offers a subtler take on the multimillennia-old Arab-Israeli conflict. Set in a remote, unspecified West Bank Israeli town that has seen better days, “LIBM” is presented from the perspective…
Teotihuacan: The Birth of a Metropolis | Arkeo Ep24 | Documentary
February 1, 2023
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Mexico City, with a population of 22 million, is North America’s second-largest urban agglomeration after New York City. In fact, according to a team of archaeologists, this urban lifestyle takes its roots in Mexico. …
Voices from the Ice | Alaska: History & Beauty Ep3 | Documentary
February 1, 2023
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Journey into the rugged, ice-carved Chugach National Forest in south-central Alaska to explore the plant and animal communities created by glaciers. …
Russell Kirk: Founder of Modern Conservatism
A recent New York Times article claimed that poetry is “dead.” The argument is not new, but since last month marked the 100th anniversary of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” the modernists thought they would reiterate themselves. “We stopped writing good poetry because we are now incapable of doing so,” wrote the article’s author, Matthew…
Can We No Longer Trust the Keepers of the Past?
When Michael Bellesiles’s book “Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture” came out in 2000, it was widely praised as groundbreaking and a corrective to how Americans viewed the Second Amendment. Bellesiles’s career was launched to critical acclaim and was awarded the Bancroft Prize, the prestigious prize awarded for works on American history….
Book Review: ‘Post-Roman Kingdoms: ‘Dark Ages’ Gaul & Britain, AD 450-800’
When the Goths sacked Rome in A.D. 410, it marked the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of what became known as the Dark Ages. There are countless books on the subject, or rather subjects, but Raffaele D’Amato and Andrea Salimbeti have taken a different and more specific route on the subjects….
Profiles in History: Floyd Gibbons: The Adventurous Reporter
Floyd Gibbons (1887–1939) loved to write about his experiences because his experiences were often exhilarating. Growing up at the turn of the 20th century, Gibbons was born at the perfect time for great adventures. In a way, he hastened the approach of his adventures when he was expelled from Georgetown University. Failing to obtain his…
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