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Borges’s Deep Grasp of Memory

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2021

In “Funes the Memorious,” Borges anticipated neurological breakthroughs into autism and the science of forgetting.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: May 5, 2016

Czech author Milan Kundera warned about how dictatorships thrive off of our forgetting. In a “Rolling Stone” article, Charlie Pierce argues that forgetting has led to the rise of Donald Trump.

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