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Trump as a Sadistic Steinbeck Bully

As bully, Trump resembles Curley in “Of Mice and Men.” Recently Biden, like Lennie, struck back.

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Earth-Hearted Hope for Dark Times

How to maintain hope in the face of catastrophic climate change? Hope is key, as Emily Dickinson and John Muir understood.

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Tim Scott’s Self-Debasement

Sen. Tim Scott’s self-abasement before Donald Trump brings to mind various “Uncle Tom” poems written by Black authors.

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Revisiting “It Can’t Happen Here”

Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”

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Conquering the Darkness Within

Pratchett’s novel “Thud!” is a plea to find inner strength rather than yielding to blind rage.

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Gandalf and Saruman, Biden and Trump

The both-siderism that equates Trump with Biden would probably equate Saruman with Gandalf.

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Trump’s Love Test Resembles Lear’s

Trump, like Lear, sets up love tests for followers. South Carolina Sen. Scott recently “passed” in the same way that Goneril and Regan pass.

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Taylor Swift as Snow White

Trump’s jealousy of Taylor Swift resembles that of the evil queen in “Snow White.” Anne Sexton’s own Snow White poem explains how jealousy works.

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Trump as Captain Queeg

Donald Trump as Captain Queeg and the captain in Eggers’s novel “Captain and the Glory.”

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