Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

Sunday reading: Why Shakespeare endures, how tomb robbers’ find is challenging long-held ideas about China’s past, and a lawyer’s-eye view of Obama’s national security policy. Plus photography and crime, new films about the Balkan wars, and a plan to reform Europe’s asylum system. Sponsored by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

 

How Shakespeare Lives Now Stephen Greenblatt The enduring and global success of Shakespeare’s work is due in part to his willingness to let go of it

 

Has Obama Upheld the Law? David Luban Obama’s decision to “look forward, not back” was politically understandable, but it is an obvious blow to civil liberties and human rights

A Discovery in China Ian Johnson For over two millennia our knowledge of China’s great philosophical schools was limited to texts revised after the Qin unification—until now

 

Balkan Poison, Revisited Tim Judah Several stunning new films about the wars suggest that some are not prepared to forget or gloss over the past

 

Caught in the Act Michael Greenberg Mug shots are the cruelest of posed pictures; punitive, shameful, they make even the young and beautiful look plain

A Better Plan for Refugees George Soros It would be irresponsible to allow the EU to disintegrate without utilizing all the resources it has at its disposal