Trump White House cage match is a modern version of the “bread and circuses” Juvenal describes in his Satire X.
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Juvenal’s “Bread and Circuses” at the White House
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
To mark today’s reading (from Ecclesiastes) about human vanity, I turn to Samuel Johnson’s great poem about the subject.
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Knives Out and the American Dream
The movie “Knives Out” is satisfying but leaves unquestioned the American Dream.
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Is Old Age Becoming Overrated?
A “New Yorker” article on aging turns to literature to debunk the notion that aging is a good thing.
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