Mass Murder: The Key to a “Successful” Presidency

Near the end of Shakespeare’s two-part play King Henry IV, the dying monarch offers some advice to his son Prince Harry, the future King Henry V: “Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, may waste the memory of the former days.” Prince Harry, an infamous party animal, had been dismissed by many as a bumbling light-weight. As King Henry lay dying he was tormented by the thought of what his undisciplined, wastrel son would do to his kingdom, once he “from curb’d license plucks the muzzle of restraint.” “When that my … Continue reading Mass Murder: The Key to a “Successful” Presidency