In Trump’s first 100 days, Jill Lepore turned to 100 classics to survive.
Tag Archives: Aesop
Classics to the Rescue in Dark Times
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "1914", "Fears in Solitude", "Nightingales Are Drunk", "Nose", "Story of the Bad Little Boy", "With Antecedents", Antigone, classic literature, Dante, Eclogue II, Edith Wharton, Figure in the Carpet, Frogs Who Demanded a King, Grimm Brothers, Hafez, Henry James, Homer, Inferno, Jill Lepore, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Matsuo Basho, Modest Proposal, Nikolai Gogol, Odyssey, Reckoning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Six Servants, Sophocles, Virgil, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Yoshido Kenkō Comments closed
Warning to Fans of Authoritarianism
Applying “The Frogs Who Wished for a King” to the U.S., Biden is King Log and Trump King Crane.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aesop's Fables, authoritarianism, Democracy, Donald Trump, Frogs Who Wished for a King, Joe Biden, Tom Nichols Comments closed
Trump as Aesop’s Frog
Aesop’s fable of the frog and the ox, versified by La Fontaine and Scott Bates, applies only too well to Donald Trump.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "F Is the Fable of the Frog and the Ox", "The Frog that Wished to Be as Big as an Ox", Donald Trump, Jean de la Fontaine, Scott Bates Comments closed
