In Brecht’s “Galileo,” we see how myths blind us to facts. Consider the the wild west myth that a only good guy with a gun will take down a bad guy with a gun.
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Debunking Cherished Myths
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Putin Is Giving War a Bad Name
Some who support fascists would prefer that they stay clean. Brecht has something to say about them.
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Brecht: Don’t Become Numb to Suffering
Brecht warns against becoming numb to the world’s horrors.
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Book Bans Again on the Rise
With book bans on the rise, Langston Hughes’s “My Adventures as a Social Poet” is must reading. So is Brecht’s “Burning of the Books.”
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Using Brecht to Explain U.S. Gun Laws
Brecht has as clear an explanation as any as to why gun laws are tilted towards Whites.
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Political Solution: Dissolve the People
Brecht’s “The Solution” captures current GOP voter suppression attempts.
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Will Trump Pay? Literature Is Unsure
Will Trump escape all accountability? Literature weighs in.
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Brecht on Trumpian Democracy Attacks
Brecht has the perfect poem for Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Wanted: Teachers, Not Martyrs
Some say teachers should, like soldiers, should put their lives on the line. This A.E. Housman poem brings up the question of whether even soldiers should do so when there sacrifice will be meaningless.
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