In his popular novel “Kafka on the Shore,” Murakami explores the kind of sadism that we are currently witnessing in Trump’s MAGA supporters.
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Using Murakami to Explore MAGA Sadism
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A.A. Milne and a Squeaking Tank
A squeaking tank at Trump’s military parade brings to mind Milne’s “The Knight Whose Armor Didn’t Squeak”
God the Father as Loving Protector
Imagine God, not as an angry father demanding punishment for sin, but a loving father holding us lovingly in His arms. Happy Fathers Day.
A.I. and the Tech Bro Accelerationists
AI is the darling of Silicon Valley accelerationists, who sound like the old Italian Futurists and who appear never to have read Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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The Song of Angry Americans
As Trump attends a performance of “Les Misérables,” I apply passages from the novel to his military crackdown on protest.
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Without Literature, No Freedom
In a commencement address, novelist Nicole Krauss made an eloquent plea for the necessity of literature in maintaining democracy.
Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America
Koestler’s novel “Darkness at Noon” applies only too well to rightwing “intellectual” and fascist advocate Curtis Yarvin.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Arthur Koestler, Atlas Shrugged, authoritarianism, Ayn Rand, Curtis Yarvin, Darkness at Noon, Fascism, John Rogers, Joyce Carol Oates Comments closed
