In his latest book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Stephen Greenblatt analyzes the Bard's most power-hungry characters. The book never mentions Donald Trump by name, but it is easy to see the parallels between our president and the characters ...read more
Vice President Mike Pence decided the best way to honor the elderly Jewish members of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh massacred by a white terrorist was to pray with a man whose sole aim is to convert Jews to Christianity. Reported the Washington Post: Two days after ...read more
On both the far left and far right, Donald Trump was seen in 2016 as a less serious threat to global stability than the dastardly corporate globalist centrists in the Republican and Democratic parties. Glenn Greenwald for example, relentlessly attacked Hillary Clinton with far ...read more
Last year, I wrote about the Kennedy Center's decision to honor artists like Gloria Estefan and LL Cool J in its annual ceremony as embracing a big tent mentality towards the arts, rather than spurning classical forms like opera and ballet in a ploy for ratings, since many of the ...read more