America is “disappearing” people, bringing to mind the fate of K in Kafka’s “Trial.”
Tag Archives: 1984
Kafka and America’s Disappeared
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Fighting the Erasure of History
Black history month is more essential these days than it has been for a while given Trump’s desire to erase it. Black writers are important in keeping it alive.
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Trump’s Orwellian Cabinet Picks
1984 understands Trumpism like few other books.
GOP Veepstakes and Pope’s Dunciad
The current candidates for Trump’s V-P are behaving like Alexander Pope’s dunces.
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The GOP Has Learned to Love Big Brother
Many in the GOP who condemned January 6 when it happened now, like Winston Smith, love Big Brother.
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Moscow’s Terror Attack and Big Brother
Like Big Brother, Putin is attempting to change the facts of the Moscow terrorist attack to justify his political goals.
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Revisiting “It Can’t Happen Here”
Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”
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Nikki Haley, a Minor Character in 1984
Nikki Haley reminds one of Tom Parsons in “1984.” Also of one of T.S. Eliot’s hollow men.
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The Left Wants to Cancel Orwell? Nope
MAGA fans of 1984 are now accusing leftists of canceling Orwell. Which is not true.
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