The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Inigo Jones

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Inigo Jones (1573-1652) Inigo   Jones, the Vitruvian 17th century architect and set designer, responsible for Ben Jonson's masques--imag...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Nudity

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strip club in Anora Nudity can be physical or emotional. In the latter one exposes oneself, the orifices and cavities which comprise the min...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Circulation Des Elites

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Vilfredo Pareto It's like overhearing your parents   fighting behind their bedroom door.   From the point of view of the average Joe, th...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Kant

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Kant Paradigm shift was the catchphrase of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). The two words are i nnocuous, almo...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Which Way Should the Male Gaze?

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  "Sunlight" by Joan Semmel (1978) Is it wrong to look pruriently on Courbet's"L'Origine du monde" with its head...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Kepler

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Johannes Kepler There are billions of galaxies. The Milky Way is only one, though a Kepler planet, an inhabitant, is still going to be 1200 ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Chance

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What are the chances of being spotted by somebody you barely know in the middle of nowhere aka Main Street in a strange city. Not much, righ...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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