‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08

The Native American population reached around seven million before European contact. Estimates for all the Americans range up to or past 45 million. In North America, Native Americans are grouped into six tribes, numbering between three and seven million people. The Eastern Woodland groups, with their densely populated societies, such as the Iroquois, were […]

Sisyphus, Sophists, and Stoics

While conventionally hailed as a work of precise realism, the Ghent Altarpiece at Saint Bavo (otherwise known as The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb) is as much a work of idealism. The Van Eycks carefully and skilfully crafted their realism within a sophisticated framework of symbolism. This balance is as much about the immanence […]