With Republicans attempting to blame Democrats for the Trump shooting, let’s look at what Borges says about conspiracy theories.
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Borges on Conspiracy Theories
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GOP Veepstakes and Pope’s Dunciad
The current candidates for Trump’s V-P are behaving like Alexander Pope’s dunces.
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Salomé: Material Girl in a Material World
Wilde’s “Salomé” is the story of a material girl trapped in a material world.
Politics Got You Down? Read Rasselas
Feel depressed about Election 2024? Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas” has some good advice.
What the Shell Tells Us about Biden
Election anxieties from listening to a seashell. That and James Stephens’s poem “The Shell.”
When at the Beach, Nature Takes Over
This William Meredith captures summer on the beach.
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Still Relevant? Whittier’s Suffering Quakers
Whittier’s poem “The Women Went from Dover foreshadows MAGA’s war on women.
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Trump’s Judges, Pale Riders
The danger of Trump’s Supreme Court is captured in Shelley’s poem “The Masque of Anarchy.”
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This Altar the Earth Herself Has Given
Guite traces an old oaken altar back to the tree out of which it was made, which also blessed the elements.
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