Democracy and Dr. Kissinger
Kissinger the scholar studied power. Kissinger the statesman acquired power, guarded it, and wielded it.
Unfinished Business
Posted on November 29, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Fleeing Paris in 1940; © LAPI/Roger Viollet.
An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.
The Anti-Poetry of John Milton
Posted on November 21, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (detail), 1808, by William Blake (1757–1827); public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake_-_Satan_Watching_the_Caresses_of_Adam_and_Eve_-_WGA02226.jpg.
There is nothing winsome about this Jesus, but winsomeness is not, Milton believes, what we need from him.
You Can’t Fact Check Propaganda
Posted on November 15, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration.
Could it be otherwise? Probably not, at least at the moment.
Afterword to an Introduction
Posted on November 9, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Amelia Rosselli in the 1960s; background art by Lisa Buchanan.
The special challenge of presenting a poet whose work is neither new nor widely known.
Whose Terror?
Posted on November 2, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Scenes from Israel (left, Yehuda Bergstein) and Gaza (right, Anas-Mohammed); Shutterstock.
I remember hearing the news and thinking that this was going to end badly for everyone. I had no idea just how bad things would get.
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