November 5, 2012

Thomas Hart Benton found authentic subjects on Manhattan subways and Martha’s Vineyard beaches.

Can anyone hold a candle to Jonathan Franzen in the world of contemporary American belles lettres?

The unfinished revolutions of the new Middle East

There are as many ways to pray as there are people who pray.

Reinhold Niebuhr in conversation Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Adams and Walter Lippmann.

Salvador Dali’s 'The Sacrament of the Last Supper'

Have you ever wondered what the Bible meant by scribe Minimally scribes were educated people who read and wrote for a living Scribes could be hired by illiterate people the vast majority for legal and financial matters More typically scribes were also experts in Torah the Mosaic law and th