Thomas Cole, The Vicious State, or The State of Destruction, from The Course of Empire series, 1836. And it would certainly be simple to leave the matter there, leaving Cole to his faith in the ...

The theme of union-versus-disunion spreads along with the empire in the long 19th century. The growth of “settler colonies” (i.e., those populated mostly by British and Irish emigrants rather ...

Of course, the U.S. is unlikely to descend into outright civil war anytime soon. ... But one way or another, our empire will eventually end.

Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large ...

Writing about the putatively good war of 1939-1945, Nicholson Baker in Human Smoke described its beginnings as the advent of civilization’s end with the records of both sides marred by the most ...

Nearly 200 years ago, Thomas Cole painted American civilization ending in violent destruction. The contemporary artist Ed Ruscha recently revisited Cole's classic, but identified end times with ...

Spoilers for Empire season 4 below. Anika Calhoun (Grace Byers) was a formidable player in Empire for years, but all her ...

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The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng recently noted that “neoconservative Twitter” loves the Galactic Empire, the putative villains of the “Star Wars” universe, prompting much harrumphing ...

When one first encounters “The Course of Empire,” the Consummation seems to loom over the rest of the paintings. It is the largest (130 cm x 196 cm, to the others’ 100 cm x 161 cm), and in Thomas Cole ...