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Commentary: What 'Hamlet' has to say about Trump's impeachment trial Charles McNulty © (Manuel Harlan/ Carol Rosegg) Two Hamlets: Andrew Scott, left, in London in 2017, and Oscar Isaac in New York City in 2017. (Manuel Harlan/ Carol Rosegg) Samuel Johnson once observed that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” A rebellion turns out to work equally well for sharpening one’s understanding of a dramatic classic. Rereading “Hamlet” after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, I was struck by how fears of ins...

Death of legendary Latinist leaves the Church a grayer place Father Reggie Foster was living proof that being indispensable is the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card. ROME – When I first arrived in Rome to cover the Vatican in the 1990s, every time I’d meet an English-speaker around town, sooner or later they’d all ask the same question, inevitably with an amused twinkle in their eye: “Have you met Reggie Foster yet?” They’d tell me he was the pope’s Latinist, which didn’t exactly seem to make meeting him the most riveting prospect. At first I thought maybe it was some kind of...