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Pitfalls and Box Canyons

Pitfalls and Box Canyons

Mapping the way through and out.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Jun 03, 2025
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I published an article last week in

The Metropolitan Review
about art, politics, and the right. It opens with the true story of a barbarian king being cut in half by his rival in a very literal fell swoop because what better way to grab your attention? (You should read it.)

The Metropolitan Review
Will Conservatives Make Great Art Again?
Theodoric abruptly drew his broadsword and struck Odoacer with such ferocity that it cleaved him from shoulder to thigh in a single slice. “The wretch cannot have had a bone in his body,” he joked, standing over the barbarian King of Italy, the man who put to bed the Western Roman Empire. Carved to…
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20 days ago · 92 likes · 25 comments · Pedro L. Gonzalez and The Metropolitan Review

The responses to it were overwhelmingly positive. In fact, it put me on a litt…

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