As with all discoverings of the past this is an act that provides useful perspectives.

Engaged intellectuals were obliged to take a stand on the side of progress and History, whatever the occasional moral vicissitudes.

Mies' style, for all of its obvious modernity, is essentially rather classicizing […]

The runagate or renegade slave travels the freedom train toward the mythic North and beyond (first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah).