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Cutting Edge Native Healing Ceremonies

By Robin Bates | Published: October 25, 2024

Silko explores the power of Native American healing practices in “Ceremony,” some of which modern medicine is beginning to adopt.

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Trump, His Billionaires, and Ayn Rand

By Robin Bates | Published: October 24, 2024

Ayn Rand’s novels help explain why certain billionaires are gravitating to Donald Trump. Trump’s own enthusiasm about “The Fountainhead” is also revealing.

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Combat Lit Awakens Future Warriors

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2024

In “Purple Hibiscus,” Adichie continues the liberation struggle of Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” but for the next stage of Nigeria’s history.

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Environmental Novelist Harriet Martineau

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2024

Victorian novelist Harriet Martineau, though largely forgotten, foresaw ecology, environmentalism, and realist fiction.

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Richard II and Our Own Succession Issues

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2024

Shakespeare’s “Richard II” maybe be about an absolute monarch but what it says about succession issues are relevant today.

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God’s Answer to Job–and to Me

By Robin Bates | Published: October 20, 2024

I explore the meaning of God’s answer to Job by applying it to when I lost my oldest son.

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Disruptive Desire in Shakespeare

By Robin Bates | Published: October 19, 2024

In which I examine disruptive desire in 12th Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet.

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Heine’s Weavers vs. Trump’s Weave

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2024

Trumps explains his growing incoherence as a rhetorical “weave.” German poet Heine provides a response in “The Weavers.”

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Swift on Media Sane-Washing

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2024

Jonathan Swift would have something to say about how the corporate media continues to sane-wash Donald Trump.

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