Tag Archives: Othello

Who Has the Real Problem with Sex?

By Robin Bates | Published: April 12, 2022

Those who complain most about sexual perversion are usually the people who are most implicated in it. Take Iago, for instance.

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Iago Resentment Is Destroying America

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2022

The “ressentiment” that drives Iago to destroy Othello is present in our own society and equally destructive.

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“Othello’s” Toxic Relationships

By Robin Bates | Published: April 6, 2022

“Othello” continues to raise urgent questions that we’ve got to grapple with.

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Is the Left Attacking the Bard? Nope

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2022

Seeking to bring back the 1990s culture wars, an “American Conservative” article claims the left is attacking Shakespeare. Nope.

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Are the Liberal Arts Automatically Liberal?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 19, 2022

Literature, in the current climate, cannot help but be seen as political. That’s because it urges us to consider other views.

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The Bard Can Reopen the American Mind

By Robin Bates | Published: May 25, 2021

Allan Bloom’s “Shakespeare’s Politics” (1964) argues that, through the Bard, we better understand politics.

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How Iago Corrupts Othello

By Robin Bates | Published: April 1, 2020

Why is Othello so gullible. It may be that he has an underlying security, which Iago understands and preys upon.

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Iago, White Supremacist

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2020

To understand Iago’s motivations, think status anxiety–the fear of losing cultural and social dominance over “the Other.”

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“Et Tu, Brute!”–Betraying the Kurds

By Robin Bates | Published: October 13, 2019

Which Shakespeare play best captures Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds? Julius Caesar, perhaps, for pathos, Othello for the cold-blooded way it was done.

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