Wendell Berry’s insight into the nature of hate recalls Satan’s soliloquy in “Paradise Lost.” It also helps explain Trumpist resentment.
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Berry and Milton on Love and Hate
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On Watching Spring Come In
Thomas Gray’s beautiful “Ode on the Spring” looks to the insect world for lessons on life.
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Trumps Wants to “Kill All the Lawyers”
Trump wants, at least metaphorically, to “kill all the lawyers.” The line is delivered by an insurrectionist and bad man in “Henry VI, Part II.”
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Flowers for St. Patrick’s Day
A rural Irish poem by Patrick Kavanagh for St. Patrick’s Day.
Trump Christians and Child Abuse
Another MAGA pastor has been indicted for sexual abuse. Goldsmith’s comic poem “Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog” puts the sanctimonious in their place.
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What Makes a Nation Strong? Not Fascism
Emerson’s “A Nation’s Strength” is must reading in this time of trial.
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