The results of this labor are now available in a slim volume, Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak (University of Iowa), edited by Marc Falkoff, a law professor who has done pro bono work ...

In the 17th century, John Milton wrote his epic poem Paradise Lost. He created the most sympathetic Satan in literary history — a complex character with legitimate grievances against a ...

How Evil Are Politicians? does what Caplan has done so well over the years: challenge our wishful thinking and pleasant fictions with calm, cool-headed analysis and an insistence on comparing what ...

Dear Tom,Many years ago you printed a poem about politicians and the weather, and I cut it out and saved it. Considering all of the hubbub and blathering involved with Chicago’s recent mayoral ...