In her latest New York Times column, Maureen Dowd brings King Lear into the Biden discussion — a tragic Shakespearean character who goes insane. . . . At some point, this discussion seems to have become competitive punditry, as if to see which opinion writer can come up with the finer form of bullying the old man. Invoking Lear will do it, though it’s absolutely over-the-top ridiculous. Really, when it comes to madness, which candidate should we be talking about?

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Dan Rodricks is a former long-time columnist for The Baltimore Sun, winner of numerous national and regional journalism awards, a radio and TV personality, podcaster and fly angler. His narrative memoir, "Father's Day Creek," was published in May 2019 by Apprentice House at Loyola University Maryland.

2 thoughts on “The current madness”

  2. “Give me the man who stumbles with his words as he tells you the honest truth over the man who can effortlessly tell you elegant lies with a silk tongue.”

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