Tag Archives: Alice in Wonderland

Revolutionary Mother Goose

Mother goose rhymes, nonsense verse, and playful fantasy are essential to our mental health.

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MAGA “Justice” and the Queen of Hearts

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards,” say both MAGA Republicans and Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts.

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Obey Your Parents or Face the Lion

Today being Hilaire Belloc’s birthday, I share one of his darkly comic “Cautionary Tales for Children.”

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Alice, Victorian Rebel

Lewis Carroll’s Alice books use nonsense to hold off no-nonsense adult society.

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The Usefulness of “Let’s Pretend”

In “Seduced by Story,” Brooks challenges the idea that literature is meant to be useful. Instead, he says, it resembles play (and then acknowledges that play itself is useful).

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Kushner: Cheshire Cat Explains Trump

Jared Kushner has compared the Trump administration to “Alice in Wonderland.” A Washington Post satirist teases out parallels he probably didn’t have in mind.

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Hopefully, Trump Is the Queen of Hearts

Is Trump like Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts? In the case of Iran, let’s hope so.

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GOP’s Best Case: We’re All Mad

Two literary allusions by a Trump defender in yesterday’s impeachment hearings don’t bode well for the president.

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Following Barr Down the Rabbit Hole

Thursday I haven’t quoted the Alice books for a while, even though in the past I have turned to them many times to capture America’s fractured politics. We are now so far down the rabbit hole, however, or so deep into the looking glass, that Lewis Carroll is must reading. On a general level, we […]

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