Steve Austin and the age of the antihero
Stone Cold was foul-mouthed, sadistic and mean — and people loved him
Heroism
Tuesday
Sunday
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Politicians as a class are almost without exception second- or third-rate people
Friday
The changing face of war and heroism
On War and Writing by Samuel Hynes is hardly about war at all. There is little about combat here, or the actual business of fighting and killing — what Shakespeare wryly called ‘the fire-eyed maid of smoky war/ All hot and bleeding’. Hynes is an august scholar of English literature and particularly the literature of … Read more
