This is the last episode we will ever do on House of Cards starring Frank Underwood as Macbeth, or Kevin Spacey as Macbeth, playing Francis Underwood ... at any rate, this is it. We talk about some odds and ends.

This is the fourth episode on House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey as Macbeth. In this episode we fast forward to Macbeth as Vice President (he really puts the “vice” in “Vice President”!). How is it different, being large and in charge on that level,

This is the third episode on House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey as Macbeth. In this episode we examine how House of Cards demonstrates the sexual elements of a dystopian story. Sex used for power, power used for sex, power with sex on the side,

This is part 3 of 3 on Chapter 7 of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The social injustice of bureaucratic sentencing: it’s always someone else’s problem. An examination of the moral effort required to become a morally conscious human be...

This is part 2 of 3 on Chapter 7 of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The history of imprisonment without formal sentence in Russia: sometimes the Tsar packed someone off to Siberia, but it didn’t happen to many people.

This is part 1 of 3 on Chapter 7 of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Sentencing by the gulag system. Sentencing and human dignity. In the gulags, you just got a piece of paper with the fate that determined the rest of your life,

This is the second episode on House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey as Macbeth, and we dig deeper into Francis Underwood’s personal life before he rises in power and how he is relatively human at this stage.

Just because we can, we are going to do a series on the 2013 Netflix series House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey as Macbeth. Our coverage of House of Cards will run through to the end of Season 2, then we’re phoning it in.

This is episode 2 of 2 on All the Truth is Out by Matt Bai. In American politics, the media are almost a part of the government. In the 1988 Democratic presidential campaign, Gary Hart’s candidacy was sunk by radically new trends in media reporting,

This is episode 1 of 2 on All the Truth is Out by Matt Bai. In American politics, the media are almost a part of the government. In the 1988 Democratic presidential campaign, Gary Hart’s candidacy was sunk by radically new trends in media reporting,