Trump’s Tehran bombing is like a mash-up of George Orwell and the Marx Brothers.
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Tag Archives: 1984
Trump’s Duck Soup of a War
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Lit, a Critical Defense against Fascism
Have Democrat’s suffered from a lack of imagination? Literature can help fix that. (For instance, “Handmaid’s Tale,” “1984,” and “Ozymandias.”)
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Trumpists Edge Closer to 1984
The Education secretary telling universities they should be in sync with the administration’s goals is further proof that it is following Big Brother’s playbook: Ignorance is strength.
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Mirror on the Wall, Who Is Evilest?
Lit Hub had a reader poll to determine the evilest literary character. Maybe not surprisingly in the Trump era, Orwell’s dictator won.
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Kafka and America’s Disappeared
America is “disappearing” people, bringing to mind the fate of K in Kafka’s “Trial.”
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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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