Wednesday I recently came across an interpretation of William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” that is getting me to rethink the poem. While I’ve written about liberals who believe that the Trumpian rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem as a bad thing (for instance, here and here), I didn’t consider that Yeats might actually be welcoming […]
In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, AG Pam Bondi proved herself Trump’s loyal consigliere (c.f. Puzo’s Godfather).
A post associating a T.S. Eliot quotation, a Tolkien passage, and a Gaiman episode from “American Gods” with ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota.
In his book on the Transfiguration, John Gatta notes that Christ showed the God is present in all creation, not in the human part of it.
In the latest memoir installment, I look back at my marriage to Julia.
To understand why Latino Border Patrol agents might have killed Pretti, the race passing novels of Faulkner, Roth, and Larsen are useful.
Two items: Bad Bunny’s trees compared to the Tolkien’s Ents and an Olympic skier compared to Icarus.
Zaphod Beeblebox has an ego the size of the universe in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” But is it as big as Donald J. Trump’s.
Trump complaining that the deaths of Good and Petti are “bad publicity” makes him appear as small as Gulliver in the land of the giants.
