Shakespeare the Suicide?
Shakespeare’s plays are full of suicides, some noble, others not very.
Olympus Agonistes
by
Ed Simon
Posted on November 19, 2024
Image: The Triumph of Galatea, 1511, by Raphael (1583–1620); Villa Farnesina; via Wikimedia Commons; public domain in the United States.
War, Death, and Intellectualism
Posted on November 13, 2024
Image: THR illustration; letters between Freud and Einstein; the Romanian campaign, World War I/Alamy Stock Photo.
Intellectualism’s core activity is analysis—investigating how and why certain occurrences take place around us.
Stories to Live By
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on November 4, 2024
Image: Joan Didion, c. 1977; Everett Collection, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo.
If politics is your life, then you must tell yourself a political story in order to live.
Are You Being Played?
by
Jay Tolson
Posted on October 30, 2024
Image: Stéphane Bernard as Père Ubu from Ubu Roi (ou presque) by Alfred Jarry, 2017, Théâtre National Populaire, France, photograph by Christian Ganet; Christian Ganet/ArtComPress/Bridgeman Images.
Our Ubu is the Savage God who embodies the worst of us.
Two Declarations
