Counterlight's Peculiars

A lazzaretto is a quarantine hospital in a port city.  Venice built the first lazzaretto (and coined the term) in the wake of the Black Deat...

Orson Welles at Chartres Cathedral, from his very last film, "F Is For Fake," 1976. Today as 5000 years ago, people pick t...

We can credit or blame Michelangelo for the “Old Man in the Sky” that instinctively comes into our minds whenever we hear the word ...

I think science and religion are about as closely related as fishing and stone cutting. Science is about finding out and figuring out with...

The largest military invasion in history took place 70 years ago today.  American, British, Canadian, and other forces landed on the beaches...

A Libertarian state would not necessarily be a democratic one.  It certainly would not be an egalitarian state since it would be a hierarchy...

Guns, money, hatred, the arrogant certainty of the fanatic are idols that tempt us away from the path of righteousness; the path of jus...