No Laughing Matter

Aristotle’s lost treatise on laughter is a serious business. Could laughter lead to the downfall of society?

Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart, by Frans Hals, 1623
Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart, by Frans Hals, 1623. Bridgeman Images.

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