Ever since the Greeks, politics and power (the getting of it and losing of it) have been grist for the dramatist’s mill. Oedipus, Antigone, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, the Pallisers of Trollope, the corrupt Congress in … Continue reading
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Once the world that people were born into was indistinguishable from the one they left after their three score and ten. Beginning with the Renaissance, accelerating change has become the new normal. The result has been a pervasive feeling that … Continue reading
I admit to paying very little attention to the criminal behavior of religious leaders and the expressions of shock and betrayal by the flock when they discover they have been sheared. My sentiment combines the feeling that the betrayed should … Continue reading