Tag Archives: 1984

GOP Veepstakes and Pope’s Dunciad

By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2024

The current candidates for Trump’s V-P are behaving like Alexander Pope’s dunces.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 13, 2024

Many in the GOP who condemned January 6 when it happened now, like Winston Smith, love Big Brother.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 28, 2024

Like Big Brother, Putin is attempting to change the facts of the Moscow terrorist attack to justify his political goals.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2024

Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 1, 2024

Nikki Haley reminds one of Tom Parsons in “1984.” Also of one of T.S. Eliot’s hollow men.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 12, 2023

MAGA fans of 1984 are now accusing leftists of canceling Orwell. Which is not true.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 30, 2023

American authoritarians appropriating Orwell’s “1984” for their own use is itself an Orwellian move.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 29, 2023

Why do people choose Trump over loved ones? “1984” provides an explanation.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 4, 2023

Studying Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” can help us understand Trump politicians.