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  • Christopher Columbus in Tatzu Nishi’s installation ‘Living Room,’ Columbus Circle, New York City, Sept. 20, 2012
    Christopher Columbus in Tatzu Nishi’s installation ‘Living Room,’ Columbus Circle, New York City, Sept. 20, 2012
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    American Lunacy

    Contrary to starry mythologized notions of the liberalism of our ‘founders,’ it was Columbus, the Puritans, the positivists, and a whole host of other completely insane people who made the New World we now inhabit, for good or ill

    byMichael Lind
  • Defaced statue of King Leopold II of Belgium, in Brussels, June 10, 2020
    Defaced statue of King Leopold II of Belgium, in Brussels, June 10, 2020
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    Invitation to a Beheading

    What can American statue-topplers learn from Europe?

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • The 8 1/2-foot statue in Robert Gaynor's front yard in Newton, Mass.
    The 8 1/2-foot statue in Robert Gaynor's front yard in Newton, Mass.
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    Retiree Builds 8 1/2-Foot Statue of Sandy Koufax in His Front Yard

    The Hall of Fame lefty, who famously sat on Yom Kippur during the 1965 World Series, had quite the impact on Robert Gaynor of Newton, Mass.

    byMiranda Cooper
  • “Hommage au Capitaine Dreyfus,” in the Square Pierre Lafue.(Thomas A. Bass)
    “Hommage au Capitaine Dreyfus,” in the Square Pierre Lafue.(Thomas A. Bass)
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    Still Wandering

    More than a century after false charges were leveled against him, the unquiet ghost of Alfred Dreyfus continues to roam the streets of Paris

    byThomas A. Bass
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