Tag Archives: Barack Obama

GOP Denies a Giant Problem

By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2014

Faced with climate change denialism, Obama has been forced to take executive action. Jonathan Swift would understand.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 12, 2014

Melville’s “Benito Cereno” perfectly captures Rightwing denial of climate change.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 7, 2014

Melville’s “Benito Cereno” captures the contradictions of today’s conservative extremists.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2014

Oliver Twist experiences the same ups and downs as Obamacare has. But there’s a happy ending.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 31, 2014

Tom Perkins complaining about Nazi-like progressives resembles the dragon in “Beowulf.”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 17, 2014

Will Hillary and Obama achieve the wisdom of the suffering Oedipus following their missteps in Benghazi?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 28, 2013

To understand Obama derangement and the government shutdown, Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Artificial Nigger” is a good place to start.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 22, 2013

Whitman’s “Song of Myself” calls us to imagine the experience of the Other, just as Obama asked us to imagine the perspective of young black men.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 27, 2013

Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” helps us sort through some of the politics of climate change.