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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Is this a great country or what? I know what you’re thinking. We have a race-baiting, amateur autocrat as president, despite having lost the popular vote. He’s done nothing to handle immigration humanely, keep infrastructure from rotting, enemies from stealing … Continue reading
I said a word about the departures of Letterman and Stewart when they were announced, but now the reality has set in, and it stings even more than I expected. I am in a kind of mourning for the retirement … Continue reading