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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Ian McKellan: "Your Mountainish Inhumanity"

On the Stephen Colbert show last week, Sir Ian McKellan delivered an impromptu monologue from the play Sir Thomas More, with some lines added, it is nowadays believed, by William Shakespeare himself.  What a powerful statement against the hate-fueled cruelty of unthinking mobs, then and now.

Shakespeare was not merely good with words: he saw through human nature and understood what makes people tick; and always upheld a kind-hearted, broad-minded Christian morality. This is the sort of thing one ought to gain from a study of good literature, properly taught.

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