Writings

In case you don’t want snippets of my thought, a sampling of the things I’ve written:

• Analysis of the Gettysburg Address - Jefferson says that “all men are created equal” is a truth “self-evident;” Lincoln calls it a “proposition.” What does that divergence reveal?
• Analysis of Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural” - How exactly is a democ­racy sup­posed to exist again, after its cit­i­zens have spent years try­ing to kill each other?
• On “Batman Begins” - A man dresses as a bat and fights nin­jas as a result of his edu­ca­tion: he’s learned what jus­tice is, and yes, we can learn quite a lot from his story.
• On “Macbeth” - Duncan’s feu­dal rule is emphat­i­cally not an option for Mal­colm, who gives every­one a pro­mo­tion and seems to want a con­sti­tu­tional monar­chy rather than absolute rule. The tran­si­tion from Dun­can to Mal­colm involved the bloody reign of Mac­beth: why?
• Emily Dickinson, “If I can stop one heart from breaking” - if only one could.