Quote for Today: Agnes Repplier
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough …
Quote for Today: G.K. Chesterton
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The …
Quote for Today: Steven Pinker
Today’s ubiquitous, networked computers have an unprecedented ability to do mischief should they ever go to the bad. But the only mayhem comes from unpredictable chaos or from human malice …
Quote for the Day: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers …
On Monsters: Portrayals of Nazis and Hitler in Hirschbiegel’s Downfall
What is the role of the artist in dealing with the dark side of humanity? How do we portray evil? My husband and I recently watched Downfall (Der Untergang), which counterpoints the …