Monthly Archives: August 2021

Here in the Sun I Sit Alone

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2021

Robert Francis’s exquisite poem “Nothing Is Far” touches on the numinous.

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Dante, Shakespeare, and GOP Betrayal

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2021

Friday When in yesterday’s post I compared the events of January 6 with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, I omitted one of the most important scenes. An Editorial Board column by political scientist John Stoehr reminded me of it. Watching the testimony of the four Capitol Police officers, Stoehr noted that they were most distressed by GOP […]

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