A rabbi poet rethinks the golden calf story as a celebration of multiculturalism in the face of ethnic nationalism.
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Author Archives: Robin Bates
At 12 I Fell in Love with Taming of the Shrew
In which I explore why I love Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew when I was 12.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Merchant of Venice, Sexism, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Comments closed
A Proposal for Book Banning Parents
Instead of banning books, it would be better if parents would read novels that appeal to their kids and talk about them together.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged banned books, Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, Perks of Being a Wall Flower, Stephen Chbosky Comments closed
The Right Attacking Empathy? Read King Lear
Rightwing groups have started attacking empathy itself, which literature fosters. Ayn Rand would approve but not Shakespeare.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Ayn Rand, empathy, Fountainhead, King Lear, William Shakespeare Comments closed
The Last Battle: C.S. Lewis on the Afterlife
In which I examine C.S. Lewis’s view of the afterlife, as expressed in The Last Battle.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Afterlife, Amber Spyglass, C.S. Lewis, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Last Battle, life after death, Philip Pullman Comments closed
Alice Captured My Childhood Anxieties
In which I explore my love affair with Alice in Wonderland as a child.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Alice through the Looking-Glass, Charles Dickens, childhood innocence, desecration of innocence, Lewis Carroll Comments closed
The Novels That Promote End Times Fascism
The three strains of end times fascism that Klein and Taylor identify each have associated novels that have galvanized followers.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Astra Taylor, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Camp of Saints, Christo-fascism, End Times Fascism, ethnonationalism, Fascism, Fountainhead, Jean Raspail, Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind, Naomi Klein, technofascism, Tim LaHaye Comments closed