Tag Archives: Aldous Huxley

Brave New World and Cellphones

By Robin Bates | Published: May 28, 2024

A Gen Z activist cites “Brave New World” while pointing to the problems with phone-based childhood.

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Chess as a Metaphor for Life

By Robin Bates | Published: November 24, 2020

“Queen’s Gambit” has many excited about chess, which has long been used as a metaphor for life–as in, for instance, Ferlinghetti’s poem “Deep Chess.”

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Wordsworth and a Depressed Philosopher

By Robin Bates | Published: October 5, 2017

When utilitarian John Stuart Mill’s philosophy led him into despair, Wordsworth’s poetry saved him.

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The President Is Reading Novels? Good!

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2011

Rightwing attacks on Obama for including novels in his summer reading are all wrong. We want our presidents to be balanced and grounded, and good fiction helps one remember what is really important in life.

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Analyzing Loughner’s Booklist

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2011

Like much of America, I am still in a state of shock over Saturday’s shooting of a Congresswoman, a judge, and 16 others. Like many I wonder if this was an example of a disturbed mind encountering the inflamed political rhetoric that has come to characterize American political discourse. (Add Arizona’s permissive gun laws into […]

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