How the U.S. Can Get Smart about Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East
Without trying to revolutionize society, pursue rights first, and democracy second.
September 27, 2021
What “Hamlet” and Ecclesiastes Have in Common
Two princes from complicated families reflect on life’s futilities.
Read in many synagogues this past Shabbat, the book of Ecclesiastes consists of the reflections on life and its vicissitudes of “Kohelet the son of David”—identified traditionally as King Solomon. To Noah Millman, Kohelet’s musings on the futility of human endeavors and the ironies and absurdities of earthly existence resemble nothing so much as the soliloquies delivered by Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Kohelet, Millman writes may seem like a philosopher, but in fact that’s not quite so:
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What “Hamlet” and Ecclesiastes Have in Common
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