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Tolstoy, Must Reading for Economists

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2024

A New Yorker article argues that economists should read Tolstoy, who understood that we can’t strip morality and politics out of the discipline.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 8, 2024

Fiction writers are responding to climate change, including Anthony Doerr in “Cloud Cuckoo Land.”

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By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2024

Herbert laments that sometimes, when he prays, his words don’t get through to God. And yet he finds peace in the end.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 5, 2024

What do bullies feel when they assert their dominance. Thomas Love Peacock provides an insight.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2024

In response to Trump’s defense that his rambling is verbal weaving, I look at applicable weaving imagery in Silko’s novel “Ceremony.”

By Robin Bates | Published: September 3, 2024

Slightly altered Shakespeare offers driving advice.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 2, 2024

Trump has been accorded messiah status by some of his followers. Voltaire would disagree.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 1, 2024

For Labor Day, two poems (Brecht, Piercy) about jobs that degrade. But the poems themselves offer solace.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 31, 2024

In “St. Peter and the Angel,” Levertov notes that divine revelation is only the first step.