What Would Thomas Malthus Think of Today’s Antinatalism and Pronatalism?
In Thomas Love Peacock’s satirical novel Melincourt (1817), a parody of Thomas Malthus named Mr. Fax encounters a young farmhand and dairymaid about to be married and…
Coming to Terms with Nature in Thomas Mann’s Black Swan
I have found that it is difficult to live in Western New York and not appreciate nature, especially during the late fall and early winter, from the…
Lope de Vega and the Guilty Mind
Lope de Vega’s Punishment Without Revenge (1631) has long been considered one of the masterpieces of Golden Age Spanish drama, and it is easy to see why…
Thomas Hardy, Trust, and Technology
A few days ago, I came across a Guardian article titled, “Making Deepfake Images is Increasingly Easy—Controlling their Use is Proving all but Impossible.” This pessimism around…
Finding Oneself in Ephesus
The Comedy of Errors is a play about a Syracusan man named Antipholus who wanders in Ephesus with his servant Dromio in search of his twin brother,…