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God’s Answer to Job–and to Me

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

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

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

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

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Not Rage Or Tears but Radical Hope

With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.

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Hurricane Milton and the Bad Angels

In which I discuss whether Hurricane Milton is punishing Florida for banning Milton’s “Paradise Lost”?

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Covid PTSD and the Green Knight

Has Covid-caused PTSD created a MAGA death cult? I turn to “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” written in response to the Black Plague, for perspective.

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Don’t Worry, the Heart Knows the Way

In “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Feet,” Joy Harjo gives us advice in how to find ourselves again.

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The U.S. Ignored Kipling’s Cautionary Tale

Would the USSR and the USA have saved themselves a lot of blood and money in Afghanistan by reading Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” before going in.

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