Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

The Great Regression

Return of the Brutalitarians

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Cain Slaying Abel, Perter Paul Rubens, 1608-09

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“Donald Trump, like all demagogues, is a barbarian. Bespoke to pass for civilized in the cultivated appointments of commerce and power, he is a brute in a suit. . ..

“As a person, he is an offense to decency who will demean and destroy both the high and the low, the weak and the strong, the guilty and the innocent in order to aggrandize his lust for superiority.”

“The Necessary, Honorable Thing,” March 23, 2016

The Necessary, Honorable Thing

The Necessary, Honorable Thing

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