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American Paintings
Great artists perceive something that is difficult to capture and portray it with a beauty that makes it easier for us to grasp. These American paintings present the American character and make us proud to be Americans.
This course explores inspiring portraits of statesmen, cherished images of common citizens, breathtaking landscapes of the American countryside, the hidden beauty of America’s city streets, and harrowing but fortifying glimpses of battle. American art is characterized by honesty. These artists attempt to balance a faithful replica of reality with a depiction of the ideal we seek. The color, light, and movement captured in brushstrokes on canvas provide a unique glimpse of the American character.
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The Sublime American Landscape
September 18, 2025
Edmund Burke described “the sublime” as an aesthetic experience that overwhelms and astonishes, a feeling of awe and even a kind of delightful terror, often in response to phenomena that are vast, powerful, or beyond our comprehension. The experience of the sublime can, at times, occur strangely alongside experience of the beautiful, which Burke described as the power to inspire love. If we ...
Republicanism and the Administrative State
August 21, 2025
In Federalist 39, James Madison writes that the nation must adopt and maintain a republican form of government, for “no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America.” As Madison points out, the decisive feature of republican government is that it “derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people.” If the people do not ultimately rule, the...
Crucifixion in Antiquity
August 14, 2025
Today, the symbol of the Christian cross is commonplace: it features on flags, adorns architecture, and appears in the medium of jewelry or tattoos. But as one shrewd observer once pointed out, the cross in the Roman context was not so different from the electric chair in our own. One can easily imagine a visitor from antiquity reacting with almost nauseated astonishment that such a gruesome item ...
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