Ubu Roi: The Power of Satire
Satire has been with us since Ancient Greece. But there are times when its potency as a political tool for exposing society’s ills is more than usually necessary.
The Good Soldier Svejk: Or How to Stay Sane in an Insane World
Albert Camus once remarked, “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.” The latest round of violence in the Middle East should give us all pause for thought. As Lindsey German of the Stop the War Coalition said earlier this week, “The US has to accept that it can’t go around illegally killing generals.”