Author: Dan Hull

Indian Summer, Hudson River 1861, Albert Bierstadt

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” –Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 London

The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] […]

New York-born John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) was a student of Gilbert Stuart. However, he was trained and worked in Paris. There he worked […]

Drum roll please. As of October 5. 2023, the patrician Chicago beauty and storied Ozark scrapper pictured here in mid-1950 have fourteen […]

Tramps Like Us: Heidelberg Castle. Around 1620, Jacques Fouquières painted Germany’s Heidelberg Castle, a famous structure in both German history and art, […]

The Concert, c. 1620, Theodoor Rombouts (Flemish, 1597-1637)

Cancel culture kills expression, fun, satire, humor, poetry, literature, and Art itself. The progressive left and the Dem party stopped being liberal […]

Hôtel Costes “All things in excess”

The comparisons between Rome and the U.S. are exciting and instructive. –What About Clients? When in Rome, do as many Romans as […]

Cosmos Club. Since 1878.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), Return from the Harvest, 1878. Cummer Art Museum, Jacksonville

September 1960 and I was 7. We had just moved from Detroit (Pleasant Ridge) to Chicago (Highland Park). Just started 2nd grade. […]

Good morning. Jack London and I want to thank BLM, American Antifa, the major TV networks, NYT, WaPo and the modern Dem […]

Is it bus station skank month at FB and Instagram? Keep getting these messages and follows from 20 year olds named Nadine, […]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) – Return from the Harvest (1878)

Here’s a gem on American immigration since 1607 written by UC Berkeley prof and progressive Ronald Takaki. Not a hateful anti-racism book […]

La Druidesse, 1868, Alexandre Cabanel (1823″“1889), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Béziers.

Fall equinox tomorrow at about 3 am. Indulge Druid friends and acquaintances. You’ve been told.

This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought. “” Eurípides (480-406 BC)