Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), Stage set for Mozart's "The Magic Flute," 1815, showing the Queen of the Night
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Editor’s Note:
I have illustrated this, the third and final Ursus Major piece on Mozart’s operas, with YouTube videos of some of its best music. Read more …
Guatemalans are Not the New Puritans
Guatemalan Catholics, just like people you might have met in seventeenth-century Plymouth, right? RIGHT?
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“Catholic migrants from Central America now have more in common with our Puritan forebears than do most Europeans.”
So argues Matthew Schmitz, a Catholic writer who supports Yoram Hazony’s “national conservatism.” He claims that a multi-racial nationalism is possible so long as it’s guided by Judeo-Christian faith. Read more …