Tag Archives: Supreme Court

SCOTUS’s Return to The Jungle

The rightwing Supreme Court is threatening to gut the regulatory agencies, set in motion years ago by a novel (Sinclair’s “Jungle”).

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Man of Property and the Dobbs Decision

In Galsworthy’s “Man of Property,” Soames sees his wife as property. With its Dobbs decision, meanwhile, the Supreme Court sees women similarly.

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Handmaid’s Tale Comes a Step Closer

We’re a step closer to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” But can find strength from “A Wrinkle in Time.”

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No Crystal Stair for Judge Jackson

The prospect of a Black woman being nominated to the highest court in the land bring to mind Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son.” In other words, it’s been a long climb.

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Atwood & Austen on Abortion in Texas

Texas’s new abortion law, which incentives citizens to snitch on their neighbors, brings to mind “Handmaid’s Tale,” “1984,” and “Northanger Abbey.”

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Think of Amy Coney Barrett as Aunt Lydia

Given Amy Comey Barrett’s rightwing positions on abortion, healthcare, and LGBTQ rights, she can be compared to Aunt Lydia in Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale.”

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Aeneas, Kavanaugh, and Female Fury

As American female anger keeps rising, esp. with regard to Brett Kavanaugh, it’s worth looking at the vivid depictions in Virgil’s “Aeneid.

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Will Hollow Senators Stand Up to Trump?

If pro-choice Senate Republicans are like the hollow people described by Dante and T. S. Eliot, we can’t expect them to vote down an anti-abortion Supreme Court justice.

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Now, Gods, Stand Up for Trump!

When traditional institutions like the government or the Supreme Court are undermined, the way is cleared for the rise of liar like Trump.

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