Public protests, for the most part, are attempts to awaken society to a moral position about which society is seemingly asleep. One thing protestors are not at all interested in is dialogue. Their position is deemed ironclad and has no need of being challenged. Among the... Read More →

  In Shakespeare’s last play “The Tempest,” the island creature Caliban is enslaved by the exiled Duke of Milan who teaches him speech. Caliban used his new skill to curse his master, saying, “you taught me language and my profit on’t is I know how to curse.” This story of... Read More →