

Julius Caesar, Smothered in Trumpery
"The decision to stage Julius Caesar with “Trump” as the dominant production idea has generated controversy and was enough to make sponsors like Delta Air Lines withdraw their support. Ultimately, the production was not a threat or an incitement to violence, but merely tacky—and it mangled both the meaning of the play and the progressive causes its creators hold dear. Shakespeare’s Caesar is no vulgar political neophyte, but a successful general and career politician remaking


Storming No Man’s Land
"I am thrilled my younger sister finally got to see a female-led superhero film, one starring the most iconic superheroine in all of comics. Wonder Woman succeeds brilliantly as a course-correction for DC’s cinematic universe, giving us a hopeful and heroic protagonist instead of the travesties of Batman and Superman previously seen on screen. Yet the movie gestures at something even better, hinting that its heroine has a spiritual vocation of peacemaking. Sadly, it ends with


Open Up Marriage—To More Children
Polyamorists should rebel not against marital fidelity but against filial parsimony. Having many children represents a real chance to fall i