Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 10th

What We’re Reading This Summer: Mega-Reads

Unlike Peter Thiel and Giorgia Meloni, I did not grow up with “The Lord of the Rings” in my life, and, reading it now with my son, it’s hard to pinpoint what about it he finds so entrancing. (Occasionally, when Tolkien gets going about Balin, son of Fundin, and Aragorn, son of Arathorn, I have […]

Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging

Considering Donald Trump’s many outrages, his theatrically hostile reception of Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, in the Oval Office on Wednesday may soon be forgotten. Or perhaps it will live on as a dim memory, an inappropriate act, to be sure, but of a piece with all of Trump’s other crazy stunts in […]

The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”

In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive to escape from conscience by connecting something of the ludicrous with them, and by inventing grotesque terms and a certain technical phraseology to disguise the horror of their practices. Indeed, paradoxical as […]