The three strains of end times fascism that Klein and Taylor identify each have associated novels that have galvanized followers.
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Author Archives: Robin Bates
When Threatened, Power Elites Go Ballistic
To what extent will DJT and MAGA go to to maintain power? Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance shows the brutality elites are capable of when threatened.
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Kipling on How to Be a Free People
Revisiting The Jungle Books while watch Trump kowtow to dictators has me examining the Wolf Pack’s claims to “a free people” while kowtowing to Shere Khan.
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ICE Buys Fahrenheit 451’s Mechanical Hound
ICE is about to start buying dog robots, bringing to mind the mechanical hound in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
The Greatest Story Ever Told?
In “The Greatest Story Ever Told” a philosopher and a religious studies professor explain why the Jesus story was inevitable if one believes that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good.
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Tintin Gave Shape to My Sense of Wonder
The Belgian graphic novels featuring Tintin had a huge impact on me as a child, providing me with a narrative framework for my own exploring.
Rereading Narnia in the Age of Trump
Rereading Lewis’s Horse and His Boy in the age of Trump has be wondering if we’re closer to Calormen than Narnia.
Blake’s Celebration of the American Revolution
in “America: A Prophecy,” Blake captures the revolutionary energies that overcame George III. We need a return to those energies.
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