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Pullman and White Christian Nationalists

By Robin Bates | Published: March 7, 2023

In “The Secret Commonwealth” Pullmans description of the Magisterium sounds a lot like White Christian Nationalism.

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Helms’s Attack on Marvell’s “Coy Mistress”

By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2016

Tales of unexpected attacks against great literature: in 1966 Jesse Helms, later a rightwing North Carolina senator, attacked Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” for providing male students a chance to talk about erotic matter in front of female students.

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