Shakespeare’s Hamlet addresses the players who will later perform a play before his uncle, the usurper and murderer of his father the King. He exhorts them in their performance “to suit the word to the action and the action to the word,” reckoning that the unity of word and deed is a rarity in the […]

As the U.S. grapples with domestic extremism in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, warnings about more violence are coming from the FBI Director Chris Wray and others. The Conversation asked Matthew Valasik, a sociologist at Louisiana State University, and Shannon E. Reid, a criminologist at the University of North […]