Feature Essays

Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling

Reflections on determinism and free will.

Apr 28 • Megan Gafford

Romanticism Can’t Save Us

A response to Ted Gioia about humanism and AI.

Feb 17 • Megan Gafford

Beauty is Not a Luxury

How American Founding Father John Adams misunderstood the value of art.

Oct 28, 2025 • Megan Gafford

Smuggling Art to the Moon

Looking back 56 years later

Aug 5, 2025 • Megan Gafford

Resurrecting Ornamental Architecture

Ornaments are functional.

Apr 22, 2025 • Megan Gafford

When Art Became a Joke

It's not funny if I have to explain it.

Feb 25, 2025 • Megan Gafford

The Culture Warrior

What kind of person advances classical liberalism?

Feb 11, 2025 • Megan Gafford

Beauty Under the Cover of Darkness

Why architect students fell in love with the International Style.

Jan 14, 2025 • Megan Gafford

A coda to "Amor Fati"

Nov 5, 2024 • Megan Gafford

How biology forms the parameters of our fate.

Oct 22, 2024 • Megan Gafford

Art Worth Dying For

Have people ever risked their lives for ugly art?

Sep 24, 2024 • Megan Gafford

"America was supposed to be Art Deco."

When America abandoned beauty.

Sep 10, 2024 • Megan Gafford

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