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West Point
Jul 30, 2026 · original
W est Point’s importance is determined by its geography: here is a spot to command the mighty Hudson. In the 1770s, the Revolutionary forces knew they had to keep hold of it and the British and Loyalist forces were determined to grab it. But in addition to its strategic location, West Point is also the scenic gem of the Hudson Valley. There is hardly a finer spot up or down the 315 miles of the river than this. Considering the legacy of government architecture today — although attempts are being made to better it — it is astounding that the sprawling gothic fortress that is the United States Military Academy was built with equal measures of gusto and taste. The drama was well captured in these New York Central railway posters by Leslie Ragan and Frank Hazell. No matter whether you are viewing it from the ruins of Fort Putnam, from the opposing shore in Garrison Landing, or from the water
Brunel’s Unbuilt Capitol
Feb 3, 2026 · original
M arc Isambard Brunel was raised in the ambience of the late ‘Enlightenment’ just as the cold yet optimistic certainties it proclaimed were descending into bloodshed and terror. Born in Normandy in 1769, Brunel père (we should distinguish him from his illustrious son) was originally destined for the priesthood. Instead, he joined the French navy and served on a corvette that took him as far as the West Indies. By the time his ship returned in 1792 and its officers and men were paid off, the kingdom was in tumult. Ostensibly, France was intoxicated by reason, mechanics, and geometry: the idea that society itself might be rationally engineered was only on the cusp of being discredited by the horrors of the French Revolution. Brunel was living in Rouen but in January 1793, while Louis XVI was on trial for his life, he made a visit to Paris. An astute observer of human affairs, Marc was unwi
Cricket at Fordham
Jan 27, 2026 · original
B ecause it was eclipsed by baseball, an infinitely more indigenous pastime, people often forget that cricket was quite a widespread and popular sport in the United States. It wasn’t until the Civil War that baseball really took over, aided by its shorter play time and the wider national mood. (Doubtless someone has, or will, write a scholarly article on this.) It survived a few generations more as something of an elite sport, more strongly in Philadelphia and its environs, as well as in colleges and universities. The interwar period pretty much killed it off, only to be revived in interest amongst Americans by seeing it played by urban immigrant communities from the West Indies and the Subcontinent. The last time I checked there was even a cricket oval being laid out on the banks of the Mohawk river, across from the farm Jan Pieterse Mabee purchased from Daniel Janse Van Antwerpen in 17
Palacio Barolo Revisted
Jan 14, 2026 · original
Assiduous readers may recall my posting about the Palacio Barolo, the mad Buenos Aires skyscraper that was conceived as a monument to the genius of Dante . In a recent entry of Kit Wilson’s excellent Eclectic Letters , novelist (and recent ‘Foidcast’ guest) Thomas Peermohamed Lambert recalls this eccentric edifice : Palacio Barolo is not my favourite building aesthetically — depending on my mood, that accolade might go to one of Le Corbusier’s Assembly building Chandigarh, or Westminster Cathedral, or the Duomo di Monreale, or the Nakagin Capsule tower — but no other building has lodged itself quite so firmly in my soul. I first visited it in 2018, while I was living in Buenos Aires. Someone mentioned to me that a few blocks from the drab neoclassical Congressional Palace resided the former tallest building in South America, designed by a mad Italian architect to accord with the cosmolog
Learning to Love Liguria
Jan 14, 2026 · original
I T ISN’T HARD to love Liguria. Genoa is now my home-away-from-home, my number one few-days-free hop-on-a-last-minute-Ryanair favourite. Whenever you mention the city to anyone there are usually two responses: I don’t know anything about it , or I love it . (Every now and then there’s a hater.) At the Italian embassy the other day I ran into my old partner-in-crime, the Ambassador’s secretary. She said her son studied there and loved it, as did she. I’d never been until my friends — a married couple previously living in Fulham with their three children — moved there over two years ago. F. had lived in Milan previously so he speaks excellent Italian and his wife M. was born in London to Italian parents. For them, the move made sense with international schools, work, and a better everyday quality of life. Finding a place to live isn’t always transparent but their local links (including, on
Crux Alba No. 2
Jan 13, 2026 · original
The editors are pleased to announce that the second issue of Crux Alba: A Journal of the Order of Malta is now available. You can purchase a copy via the Grand Priory’s shop or find out how to subscribe . The lead article by Gregory Goodrich explores the Order’s search to purchase land from the early United States and includes previously unpublished correspondence between the Grand Master and James Monroe. Simone Monti examines a beautiful illuminated sixteenth-century missal from the Order’s period on Rhodes. Dr Anna K Dulska spoke with the last Hospitaller nun of Sijena before her death late last year and explores the artistic and historical legacy of the monastery there. Clemens von Mirbach-Harff relays news of the Order’s humanitarian efforts to deal with the crisis in Gaza, including the opening of two new medical clinics. Henry Sire pens an expert review of Marcus Bull’s recent boo
Village Street, Winter
Jan 7, 2026 · original
M axfield Parrish was the king of middlebrow. More of an illustrator rather than a practitioner of high art, he was at least a painter through and through. Norman Rockwell — widely rated as more important — referred to him as his ‘idol’. His 1900s visions of blousy clouds and flowing garments are significant for the time but perhaps best forgotten. By 1931 he had pronounced to the press that he was ‘done with girls on rocks’. As he gained in years, Parrish moved more towards the observed, inhabited landscapes of his adopted New England. He set up his studio in Plainfield, New Hampshire, where he painted V illage S treet , W inter . A leaf-barren tree stands dark against the winter dusklight, partly obscuring the village church. Ground-floor windows of wood clapboard houses emit a warm glow — suppertime isn’t long away now. No idyll lasts forever: this scene was painted in 1941, the last
Churchill’s Beguinage
Nov 10, 2025 · original
T he last beguine Marcella Pattyn was born in Thysstad, the Belgian Congo, in 1920 and died in the beguinage of Kortrijk in West Flanders in 2013. At the time many were tempted to mark this as the final chapter in a legacy dating back eight-hundred years, but I would not be surprised if the beguines made at least a partial comeback. One can easily imagine a town like Oxford hosting a beguinage for the many pious ladies pursuing lifelong academic interests but seeking some sense of Christian life in common. (And the perfect property for it has just come on the market if a patron with deep pockets can be found). Who were the beguines? As The Economist explains : Appearing around 1200 in the Low Countries, the Beguines’ semi-religious lifestyle forged a third way for women. Though its chaste sisters, of all ranks and fortunes, prayed together, they were not bound by permanent vows. Beguines
An Old Election in New Utrecht
Nov 4, 2025 · original
As New Yorkers head to the polls today it might be worthwhile perusing the archives for reports of elections previous. In the 28 November 1868 issue of The Spectator , this account of an American village election was printed. The village in question was New Utrecht, founded in 1652 by our Dutch forefathers of old. In 1868 it was still a village; today it is very much a neighbourhood of the Borough of Brooklyn, King’s County, in the City and State of New York. Closer to home in Westchester, there are plenty of local offices up for the determination by citizens . It might be rather fun to stand for Town Clerk or Village Justice or Receiver of Taxes… AN AMERICAN VILLAGE ELECTION FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bayridge, The Narrows, L.I., November 6, 1868. I AM here again among the falling leaves, and on the great election-day, the 3rd, I went with a friend to the polling-place of this towns
The Long Homecoming of Eliza Monroe
Oct 31, 2025 · original
A presidential daughter is reunited with her parents N early one hundred and eighty-five years after her death in Paris, the mortal remains of Eliza Monroe Hay — daughter of the fifth President of the United States — have been laid to rest in Richmond, Virginia. Her reburial beside her parents President James Monroe and First Lady Elizabeth Monroe marks the end of a long and curious chapter in the history of this illustrious American family. The return of Eliza’s remains was the work of Barbara VornDick, a retired Virginia educator who spent more than a decade tracing Monroe descendants, searching archives and navigating French and American bureaucracy. Working with the U.S. Embassy in Paris and the Diocese of Richmond, VornDick secured the exhumation and transport of Eliza’s remains from an unmarked Parisian grave to the family plot. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was offered for the re

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