Tag Archives: Bill Clinton

Blake, Gibran, and Harris’s Joy

By Robin Bates | Published: August 29, 2024

The power and effectiveness of Harris and Walz’s joy is captured in poems by Blake and Gibran.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Eternity, "Joy and Sorrow", 2024 election, Al Sharpton, Auguries of Innocence, joy, Kahlil Gibran, Kamala Harris, Prophet, William Blake | Comments closed

Heaney and the Good Friday Agreement

By Robin Bates | Published: April 12, 2023

Looking back at Northern Ireland’ Good Friday agreement, Clinton has cited a Seamus Heaney poem. There’s good reason for this.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Cure at Troy", Good Friday agreement, Ireland, Irish Troubles, Joe Biden, Northern Ireland, Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney | Comments closed

Chaucer’s Solution for Sexual Assault

By Robin Bates | Published: November 21, 2017

What are we to do about all of our sexual assaulters, given that they probably number in the thousands? Chaucer’s Wife of Bath has an answer.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Franken, Charlie Rose, Donald Trump, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Roy Moore, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale | Comments closed

Good Readers Make Good Presidents

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2016

Continuing with the favorite literature of our presidents, here is Eisenhower through Obama.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged American presidents, Barack Obama, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan | Comments closed

The Favorite Books of American Presidents

By Robin Bates | Published: June 10, 2009

I’ve had fun discussing the reading of Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas over the last couple of days, and while I’ve come up dry on further posts about the Supreme Court and literature, it has given me the idea of periodically dipping into reading stories of other political figures. I’ll start a list here, beginning […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Al Gore, Albert Camus, Barack Obama, Bible, Book of Job, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Cremation of Sam McGee, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward Arlington Robinson, Elizabeth Alexander, Eric Carle, From Russia with Love, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George W. Bush, George Washington, Ian Fleming, James Dickey, John Kennedy, Joseph O'Neill, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Mr. Flood's Party, Netherworld, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Proverbs, Richard Corey, Richard Nixon, Richard Sheridan, Robert Frost, Ronald Reagan, School for Scandal, Shooting of Dan McGrew, Song of Solomon, Stendahl, Teddy Roosevelt, The Red and the Black, The Stranger, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Toni Morrison | Comments closed