How long should one pause following the death of a public figure like Justice Antonin Scalia before considering the political implications? It’s an issue that also arises in Anthony Trollope’s “Barchester Towers.”
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Justice Scalia, Blind Like Pentheus
Scalia attacking his fellow SCOTUS justices sounds like Pentheus excoriating Teiresias and Cadmus in “The Bacchae.” Unlike Scalia’s fellow justices, Teiresias gives as good as he gets.
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Sometimes Whites Need Voting Rights Act
Steinbeck reminds us that it is not only people of color who have had their voting rights infringed.
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