Quote of the day
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Stephen Greenblatt
Born: November 7, 1943 (age 79)
Bio: Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011)
- Renaissance self-fashioning (1980)
- Marvelous Possessions (1991)
- Hamlet in purgatory (2002)