In Laurel and Hardy's "Big Business," two door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen fight a bad-tempered homeowner. The manic tit-for-tat escalates from head banging to a demolished house and an exploded ...

Unthinkable: French philosopher René Girard developed a theory of scapegoating. The US vice president has weaponised it ...

According to French thinker René Girard, human beings copy each other's desires and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities, this conflict ...

“Resurrection From the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky” by Rene Girard (translated and edited by James G. Williams, Michigan State University Press, $24.95, 120 pages) A generation or so ago, it was ...

René Girard, a French scholar best known for his work on desire, violence, and religion, died November 4 at age 91. Girard immigrated to the United States in 1950, teaching social science at several ...

For some time now, theologians have been more than somewhat reserved regarding the oeuvre of René Girard. On the whole, they have often been tempted to either neglect or hastily dismiss his work on ...

In his 1950s poem “Vespers,” W. H. Auden recalls a meeting of representatives of two different political standpoints. They come together: Nobody familiar with René Girard’s mimetic theory can read ...

I have begun reading Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World, a book-length interview (conducted by two psychiatrists) with the late philospher René Girard. Here’s what Peter Thiel told an ...

René Girard (1923- 2015) was inducted into the French Academy in 2005. Many of us felt this honor was long overdue, given his international prominence as a French intellectual whose works had crossed ...

The piggish Harvey Weinstein really has been destroyed professionally. Good: Hollywood’s de facto governing body, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to ...

Olivier Giroud: 'I can play under an Antonio Conte-like manager' Olivier Giroud claims that he "would adapt" to any side and any manager in world football, having previously succeeded under "barker" ...