Walter Moss
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In our past two definitions regarding full citizenship--an exclusionary one and an inclusive one--have contested each other, and until after the Civil War almost all Blacks, women, and Native Americans were excluded from voting. Since then, although women obtained the national vote starting with the 1920 presidential election, various stratagems prevented many Blacks and Native Americans from exercising such a right until the 1960s.
Since then, despite having presidents of both major political parties, none of them has been as much as a white racist--and anti-immigrant and anti-refugee--as our current second-term president, Donald Trump.
When her husband finally arrives back in Stratford--too late to see Hamnet still alive--Agnes expresses her grief and berates William for being absent. It is only several years later when Agnes comes to London and sees "Hamlet" performed that she seems to reconcile herself to the death of their son--after the decease of Hamlet at the end of the play, Agnes touches her heart to signal her love for Hamlet/Hamnet and reaches out her hand to that of the prone and dying Hamlet, whose life has been taken by a poisoned spear.Then she imagines son Hamnet walking off the stage, and she smiles and finally laughs as if she finally understands his death.
Jesse Buckley won a 2026 Oscar for her portrayal of Shakespeare’s wife, and the other actors are also excellent including Paul Mescal as Shakespeare, Jacobi Jupe as Hamnet, and Emily Watson as Shakespeare’s mother.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on “The Common Good” suggests it could be productively “conceived as an ideal that is the subject of deliberation, contestation and critique.” Moreover, the common good should be viewed from a global and not just a national perspective. That is one reason that our present climate crisis should be a higher priority than it is in the USA.
But Trump fails to understand the main purpose of history. It is not praising “remarkable achievements” and “fostering unity.” It is truth-seeking. “Tell the truth” should be as central to the historian’s mission, as “First, do no harm” is to doctors and nurses. But Trump has become renowned, as Republican Senator Jeff Flake said in early 2018, for battering and abusing “objective, empirical, evidence-based truth . . . more . . . than any other [president] in the history of our country.”
In February 2026, it was announced that the U. S. was working with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt to “finalize a comprehensive peace plan to end the Sudan civil war. The initiative aims for an immediate, sustained humanitarian truce, a permanent ceasefire, and a transition to a civilian-led government.” Meanwhile, however, according to Oxfam America, “the Trump administration has shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which funded the majority of U.S. humanitarian and development assistance worldwide to people in some of the worst crises. The effect of these cuts on people is dire,” especially in Sudan. Thus, if we wish to do something--and do it now--for the suffering people of Sudan, we cannot count on Trump’s peace plan, which reflects more “smoke and mirrors” than substance. Perhaps our best possible course is to turn to Oxfam America or contribute to some other worthwhile private charity.