Tag: Franz Kafka

Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Trial’: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied 

NR | 1h 59 min | Drama | 1962 Orson Welles’s formidable baritone introduces his masterpiece, “The Trial” (1962), with a parable. A man shows up at the seemingly beckoning doorway of The Law. A guard stops him and warns that each new threshold of the edifice is more zealously guarded than the first. The…


Kafka Comes to Scotland, and Free Speech Goes Missing

Commentary You do not defend free speech by demanding it for yourself but by demanding it for others, especially when you reprehend the use to which they put it or what they say. Freedom to agree with yourself is no freedom at all and inevitably ends in tyranny. But increasingly a tyranny of self-proclaimed virtue…