Tag Archives: Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Childhood Imagination: Encourage It or Lose It

By Robin Bates | Published: May 13, 2026

Reflections of childhood imagining and how too often our society fails to foster it.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Children, Huckleberry Finn, Imagination, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain | Comments closed

Awaiting the Verdict

By Robin Bates | Published: May 29, 2024

Will Trump once again escape justice? An Emily Dickinson poem captures the sentiments of those of us who fear he will.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "I many times thought peace had come", Beggar's Opera, Donald Trump, Emily Dickinson, John Gay, Lewis Carroll | Comments closed

To Understand Trump’s Trials, Ask Alice

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2024

To understand the Trump trials, check out Lewis Carroll’s Alice books.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Alice through the Looking Glass, Donald Trump con games, Lewis Carroll, Trump trials | Comments closed

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 […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Adolph Hitler, Aesop, Aldous Huxley, Alice through the Look Glass, Arizona killings, Ayn Rand, Brave New World, Charles Bukowski, Communist Manifesto, Ernest Hemingway, Fables, Fahrenheit 451, Gulliver's Travels, Harper Lee, Hermann Hesse, Homer, James Barrie, Jared Lee Loughner, Jonathan Swift, Karl Marx, Ken Kesey, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Mein Kampf, Meno, nimal Farm, Norton Juster Phentom Tollbooth, Odyssey, Old Man and the Sea, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Peter Pan, Plot, Pulp, Ray Bradbury, Reading George Orwell, Republic, Siddhartha, To Kill a Mockingbird, violence, We the Living, Wizard of Oz | Comments closed

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