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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click here to listen to Louise Gl ück read this poem. There was a war between good and evil. We decided to call the body good. That made death evil. It turned the soul against death completely ...