What Makes Aristophanes Relevant Today? Call It ‘Patriotic Obscenity’

“When adversaries in politics go low, one has no choice but to go equally low, if not lower, in order to have the same visceral impact [on] the same number of people. And what was revealed to me under the previous administration was that the fate of our whole democracy might hang on your wit and your ability to use obscenity and travesty and mockery effectively.” – Los Angeles Review of Books