Tag Archives: Terry Pratchett

A Thieves Guild to Manage Crime

By Robin Bates | Published: April 23, 2024

Pratchett uses his Thieves Guild to satirize those who think perfection in our society is achievable.

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Conquering the Darkness Within

By Robin Bates | Published: February 22, 2024

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

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Pratchett on How Guns Possess Us

By Robin Bates | Published: February 5, 2024

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Trump, “Vermin” and Terry Pratchett

By Robin Bates | Published: January 9, 2024

In “Snuff” one of Terry Pratchett’s angriest book, the author takes on racism, ethnocentrism, and intolerance.

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Pratchett’s Response to Intolerance

By Robin Bates | Published: January 8, 2024

Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching novel “I Shall Wear Midnight” is a good counter to Christofascism.

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Good Omens and Vladimir Putin

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2022

To imagine the reluctance of Russian soldiers to fight, check out this scene in “Good Omens.”

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Pratchett’s Solution to Police Violence

By Robin Bates | Published: September 22, 2020

Wednesday That Breonna Taylor’s family is receiving a $12 million settlement and the promise of police reform following her wrongful shooting by Louisville police is in part a testimony to Black Lives Matters protests and other instances of public pressure. Without them, we might not even know her name. With that in mind, I return […]

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Battling Our Inner Darkness

By Robin Bates | Published: September 15, 2020

Terry Pratchett’s “Thud!” deals with violence–both the violence we are witnessing around us and the violent thoughts these call up within ourselves. It helps explain police brutality.

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A Pratchett Drama about Conmen

By Robin Bates | Published: September 8, 2020

Pratchett’s “Going Postal,” a novel about a conman, captures much about our own Conman-in-Chief.

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