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Pricked and Bleeding Thanks to Trump

A mother, brutalized by federal agents who got the wrong house, seemed to be channeling “Merchant of Venice” in her response.

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Shakespeare in a Divided America

Shapiro’s “Shakespeare in a Divided America” shows that the Bard has made an appearance in most of American history’s key moments.

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The Bard on How to Drive Dramatically

Slightly altered Shakespeare offers driving advice.

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The Dangerous Power of Libraries

Libraries as described by poet Paul Engle are sometimes repositories of dynamite, sometimes of comfort.

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On Portia, Milosz, and Pardoning Trump

Should Biden pardon Trump. This article, citing “Merchant of Venice” and a Milosz poem, argues no.

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The Bard Understood Race in a Deep Way

Shakespeare understood race at a deep level, whiteness and blackness both. In “Titus Andronicus” a character declares that Black is beautiful.

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Bloom: The Bard Invented the Human

I examine how Harold Bloom believes that Shakespeare changed history.

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The Bard Can Reopen the American Mind

Allan Bloom’s “Shakespeare’s Politics” (1964) argues that, through the Bard, we better understand politics.

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A Stuck Ship, a Pound of Flesh

The Evergreen cargo ship, stuck in the Suez canal, brings to mind a Shylock passage from “Merchant of Venice.”

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