Painting the human face and form, the most difficult and precious of the fine arts, reached its maturity in 15th-century Florence and 16th-century Venice. Thereafter it was elaborated and varied by a succession of great masters for 300 years, until…
The connection between political liberty and the individual ownership of property is one of the great certitudes of human society. It is carved in granite, at least in the English language, where the words “freedom” and “freehold” come from the…
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The Fire: The Bombing of Germany 1940-1945 by Jörg Friedrich, translated by Allison Brown (Columbia University Press, 552 pages, $34.95) Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden by Marshall De Bruhl (Random House, 368 pages, $25.95) Sixty years after…
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