Tragedy, it turns out, is a powerful literary form for dealing with posttraumatic fear.
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Got a Problem? Call a Poet
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Kundera Understood Authoritarianism
The late Milan Kundera understood the authoritarian mindset in a deep way. “Book of Laughter and Forgetting” and “Eternal Lightness of Being” capture the mindset.
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Our New President Understands Suffering
America has elected a president who understands suffering. A passage from Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon” seems right.
#MeToo: A New Day for Cassandra
The prophetess Cassandra wasn’t listened to, but the #MeToo movement is changing that.
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Climate Scientists, Our Cassandras
Our climate scientists must feel like modern day Cassandras, as she appears in Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon” or Robinson Jeffers’s “Cassandra.” The prophetess knew what would happen but no one believed her. As a result, Troy fell.
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Germany vs. Greece, a Greek Tragedy
Novelist Tim McCarthy argues that the economic collision between Germany and Greece reenacts a number of the classic Greek tragedies, most notably “Oedipus” and “The Oresteia.” But Athena may not intervene in this instance.
