Failure, Tragedy, & Comedy, (and a little about “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”)
Thoughts on Seymour Krim and George W. S. Trow that probably fail to illuminate the uses of comedy and tragedy.
Tagged: tragedy
Tenons Avec De Nice
Not a lot known just yet about what happened during Bastille Day celebrations on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France.
The Santa Barbara Shooting
A horrific event at Burt Likko’s alma mater leaves him meditating on whether the modern age has somehow magnified and distorted the difficult-enough trials of youthful sexual frustration.
On the Limits and Possibilities of Acknowledging Human Tragedy
It’s one of the great mistakes of contemporary political discourse that the doctrine of original sin is almost exclusively used to justify inaction. The usual argument goes as follows: humans are profoundly, tragically sinful....
The Violent Gang Member in This Picture Is Easily Identifiable By His Tell-Tale Outerwear
Being a white male of means, I’m never entirely comfortable getting on a soapbox and talking about racism. You never know what is really in another person’s heart, and it’s difficult to unpack what...
Shooting spree illustrates why it’s time to end the war in Afghanistan
The latest tragedy in Afghanistan is still unfolding. An American soldier went on a shooting spree, killing sixteen civilians and wounding numerous others: “Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically...
On Child Abuse
by Sam Wilkinson “Did you hear?” asked a coworker, in my office to take a break. “They found a 70-pound girl on the side of the road.” They in this case was a passerby...
22 Years Later
~by Jonathan McLeod I was 13. I couldn’t fathom that my sister’s life could be worth any less than mine. I would never have thought that the girls I knew and loved, friends like...
(Civil) War and Tragedy, Cont’d
Tossed off almost like an aside, and one of those lines I had to go back and listen to multiple times while somewhere on I-65 in the northern half of Indiana, Eric Foner speculates...
