Shakespeare’s “Richard II” maybe be about an absolute monarch but what it says about succession issues are relevant today.
Monthly Archives: October 2024
Richard II and Our Own Succession Issues
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, Election 2024, Peaceful transfer of power, Richard II, William Shakespeare Comments closed
God’s Answer to Job–and to Me
I explore the meaning of God’s answer to Job by applying it to when I lost my oldest son.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Book of Job, death and dyng, Flies, grieving, Jean Paul Sartre, Job, Suffering Comments closed
Disruptive Desire in Shakespeare
In which I examine disruptive desire in 12th Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Comedy, gender bending, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, sexuality, tragedy, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Heine’s Weavers vs. Trump’s Weave
Trumps explains his growing incoherence as a rhetorical “weave.” German poet Heine provides a response in “The Weavers.”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Weavers", dementia, Friedrich Engels, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Mladen Dolar, revolt, Silesian weavers of 1844 Comments closed
Swift on Media Sane-Washing
Jonathan Swift would have something to say about how the corporate media continues to sane-wash Donald Trump.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged bothsiderism, corporate media, Donald Trump, Jonathan Swift, Journalism, Modest Proposal, sane-washing, Tale of a Tub Comments closed
Not Rage Or Tears but Radical Hope
With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Lord Tennyson, climate change, Fascism, MAGA, Myth of Sisyphus, nihilism, Things, Ulysses, Ursula K Le Guin Comments closed
Hurricane Milton and the Bad Angels
In which I discuss whether Hurricane Milton is punishing Florida for banning Milton’s “Paradise Lost”?
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Destruction of Sennacherib", Book banning, hurricanes, John Milton, Lord Byron, Paradise Lost, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Comments closed
Covid PTSD and the Green Knight
Has Covid-caused PTSD created a MAGA death cult? I turn to “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” written in response to the Black Plague, for perspective.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Covid, death cults, MAGA, pandemics, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Comments closed
Don’t Worry, the Heart Knows the Way
In “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Feet,” Joy Harjo gives us advice in how to find ourselves again.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet", Indigenous Peoples' Day, Joy Harjo Comments closed
