Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Melville and Climate Change Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: May 12, 2014

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

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Melville’s Parable of American Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: April 7, 2014

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

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Will Oliver Finally Get Health Care?

By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2014

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

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Tom Perkins & America’s Dragon-Like 1%

By Robin Bates | Published: January 31, 2014

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

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Oedipal Blindness in Benghazi

By Robin Bates | Published: January 17, 2014

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

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Tea Party Racism and Flannery O’Connor

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.

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Whoever Degrades Another Degrades Me

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.

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Being Right on Climate Is Not Enough

By Robin Bates | Published: June 27, 2013

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

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Scandal? Nothing but a Pack of Cards

By Robin Bates | Published: June 5, 2013

Like Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts, GOP investigation committees want verdict first, trial afterwards.

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