Pushkin’s ‘Comedy of Distress’ Today

Regular readers know that I am particularly taken with the phrase “comedy of distress,” which seems to have originated with Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin applied it to his play about Tsar Boris Godunov, but most recently I applied it to the...

Will Any Words Remain?

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Will any Words Remain? It was almost exactly one year ago that Senator Joseph Biden got himself into big trouble by describing Senator Barak Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright...