# Mostly Aesthetics

Philosophy, the arts, and poetry

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## [Omaha Beach / The Children Who Were Chosen](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/omaha-beach-the-children-who-were)

_2026-08-15 · Brad Skow_

Two Poems

## [“Hide not your face from me”](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/hide-not-your-face-from-me)

_2026-08-07 · Brad Skow_

Bertrand Russell was once asked how he would justify his atheism, if he found himself before the pearly gates.

## [What makes sad music sad?](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/what-makes-sad-music-sad)

_2026-08-02 · Brad Skow_

On Appearance Emotionalism

## [Paradise Regained Read Blind](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/paradise-regained-read-blind)

_2026-07-25 · Brad Skow_

Jesus fasted forty days in the desert, and was tempted by Satan. Paradise Regained is John Milton’s re-telling of those temptations, with expansions and inventions.

## [Moral Monsters](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/moral-monsters)

_2026-07-18 · Brad Skow_

However evil you believe the Nazis were, the reality was worse.

## [Shakespeare / Anarchy / Revolution](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/shakespeare-anarchy-revolution)

_2026-07-12 · Brad Skow_

Is your work is underappreciated? Are you throwing pearls before swine? Take heart!

## [“Prepare the new world an asylum for mankind”](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/prepare-the-new-world-an-asylum-for)

_2026-07-04 · Brad Skow_

In early 1776, Common Sense went viral in the colonies, turning heads and tipping the scales toward independence.

## [Love of Country, II: America the beautiful](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/love-of-country-ii-america-the-beautiful)

_2026-07-01 · Brad Skow_

What is the American aesthetic? The question sounds like the setup for a joke. It must be as brash as a billboard advertisement, as saccharine as a 64-ounce Big Gulp of Coke Cola.

## [Love of Country, I](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/love-of-country-i)

_2026-06-30 · Brad Skow_

Patriotism gets some side-eye from many, and—in elite clubs and back-room meetings—patriotic Americans get more. But patriotism can be defended, and is given a worthy defense, in Spencer Case’s soon-to-appear book Why It’s OK to be Patriotic.

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## [Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Thales](https://www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/lives-of-the-eminent-philosophers-699)

_2026-06-27 · Brad Skow_

To the promotions committee, this is my evaluation of Thales’ case for tenure.