State Power and Shakespeare

This article is taken from a talk I gave on August 13, 2017 at the 35 th  Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness in New Orleans. State power affects a lot of the subjects that this group addresses, from climate change and the linear no-threshold model of radiation to saturated fats and DDT. The text includes some of the slides I used for this talk.

Last year the literary world celebrated William Shakespeare on the 400th Anniversary of his death. In the U.S., sponsors had a copy of...