Tag Archives: Thomas Dixon

We Need Disturbing Lit If We Are to Grow

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2023

If we want literature to improve our lives, often we must read–and teach–works that unsettle.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bluest Eye, C.S. Lewis, cancel culture, Cat's Eye, censorship, Clansman, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Light in August, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lottery, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner | Comments closed

Can Lit Make the Rich More Empathetic?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2015

With growing income disparity comes a decline in empathy. Literature can help rebuild our compassion.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Clansmen, empathy, Honoré de Balzac, Income inequality, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Pinker, violence | Comments closed

Compassion for the Poor Is Not Enough

By Robin Bates | Published: August 6, 2013

Speaking with the head as well as the heart against oppressive class conditions is necessary in novels as in public policy.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged austerity budgeting, Charles Chestnutt, Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Clansman, Economics, Paul Ryan, recession | Comments closed