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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Best of the year lists are inevitably incomplete and subjective. No one can see everything, and what’s to one person’s taste may leave another cold. Still, I keep a list every year, and here it is with two additional caveats. … Continue reading
Here we are again at the shortest days of the year. Before the lightbulb, central heating, and a thousand other innovations over the last hundred years, humans were far more in touch with the progress of the seasons, kept time … Continue reading