Trump’s executive order banning trans from the military has been described as Pecksniffian, an allusion to the villain in Dickens’s “Martin Chuzzlewit.”
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Trump’s Pecksniffian Trans Ban
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To Resist Trump, Be Like Odysseus
The Trump resistance started off like Telemachus overwhelmed by the suitors but, like Odysseus upon his return, it is starting to get strategic.
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Trump’s Viking-Like Threats
The Weiss law firm has caved to Trump’s threats, in effect (this according to the Bulwark’s Krystol) paying the Dane-geld. This is reference to a Kipling poem.
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Berry and Milton on Love and Hate
Wendell Berry’s insight into the nature of hate recalls Satan’s soliloquy in “Paradise Lost.” It also helps explain Trumpist resentment.
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On Watching Spring Come In
Thomas Gray’s beautiful “Ode on the Spring” looks to the insect world for lessons on life.
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Trumps Wants to “Kill All the Lawyers”
Trump wants, at least metaphorically, to “kill all the lawyers.” The line is delivered by an insurrectionist and bad man in “Henry VI, Part II.”
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Flowers for St. Patrick’s Day
A rural Irish poem by Patrick Kavanagh for St. Patrick’s Day.
