Some Florida schools are now censoring Shakespeare, taking out the racy parts and offering only excerpts.
Tag Archives: Hamlet
Prigozhin Didn’t Take the Tide at the Flood
Did Prigozhin disregard Brutus’s advice, failing to take the tide when it was at its flood? If so, he might come to regret it.
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A McEwan Passage to Raise Your Spirits
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Why Conspiracy Theories Beat Logic
Philosopher Mladen Dolar cites Socrates and Hamlet to explain why conspiracy theories are so resistant to logic.
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Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio
Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
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Hamlet and a Teen Suicide Outbreak
Hamlet may give us some insight into adolescent suicides, which are on the rise.
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