Bangladesh, Aug. 9 -- John le Carrés Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy endures not simply as the anti-James Bond film but as something rarer: a diagnosis of Western civilization at the moment it began lo... Read More
Bangladesh, July 20 -- In a world that proclaims human rights as universal, what does it mean that entire peoples are rendered legally nonexistent-human beings for whom, as Hannah Arendt put it, ̶... Read More
Bangladesh, July 16 -- Few literary works have generated as many competing interpretations as Shakespeares Hamlet. Psychoanalytic critics have found an Oedipal drama. Existentialists have found a medi... Read More
Bangladesh, July 7 -- On Saturday, July 4, Americans celebrated the nations 250th anniversary with the familiar fanfare: fireworks, flags, patriotic speeches, and ritual invocations of liberty. Yet at... Read More
Bangladesh, June 18 -- In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the questio... Read More