Yeah, I'm pretty happy with the episode. After all, enough time passed in the Aku defeated future for Jack's parents to recover, get to know Ashi, and then set up the wedding. So she probably told everyone about her journey and Jacks (even if he wouldn't), so this world learned all about the clip show she did in the…

so viewers of a show celebrating an amoral being intentionally played as Lucifer from Milton did not exactly play nice? go figure.

Got to say, I would have preferred a show focused on Asser of Wales and the intellectual life at the court of Alfred in the midst of the violence. Sort of Brother Cadfael meets the other Vikings.

um, you know that Vasari wrote his lives of the famous artists in the Renaissance, right? That is the start of the "high class artist" in the west. Islamic arts also had high status (Sultans were taught caligraphy), and Genji (of the Tale of Genji) drew as well as wrote poetry (sometimes in the same piece, where the…

So the article observes, correctly, that much critical judgment has to do with non aesthetic categories, like genre or gender (you could add race and class). Nevertheless, it goes on to replace those with other non aesthetic categories, progressiveness/inclusiveness.

If someone made the claim that an action wasn't imperialism because it didn't consist of a direct application of hard power against another state, I think most people would object that this definition was too narrow.

Since the eagles fear ordinary Dale bowmen, and woodmen trying to protect sheep, I doubt they could go into Mordor with a hobbit carrying a ring over fortresses stuffed with orc archers (gwaihir had to be saved by gandalf from one), silent watchers, probably siege engines, and flying nazgul.

To be fair, Salamis is considered a victory of and for Athenian democracy by no less than Aristotle: