John Cornyn compared the GOP to Atticus Finch? The comparison holds if he has in mind the Atticus of “Go Tell a Watchman.”
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Yes, GOP Is Atticus, but Not in a Good Way
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Atwood’s Circe vs. Brett Kavanaugh
Monday The contrast between an accommodating Christine Blasey Ford and an exploding Brett Kavanaugh is indelibly printed on my mind and may be the major thing I take away from the hearings. That white privileged men can use anger to assert dominance while women and people of color must speak in measured tones has become […]
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Camilla, the Woman Who Fights Back
Camilla is a woman who fights back against Aeneas. It prove to be all in vain, which may be the case of those opposing rightwing justices on the Supreme Court.
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Kavanaugh-Pentheus vs. Angry Women
Euripides’s “Bacchae” gives us good insights into Kavanaugh’s alcohol consumption and his relation with women.
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Aeneas, Kavanaugh, and Female Fury
As American female anger keeps rising, esp. with regard to Brett Kavanaugh, it’s worth looking at the vivid depictions in Virgil’s “Aeneid.
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Kavanaugh as Privileged Teen
Attempted rape accusations when Brett Kavanaugh was a teen invite comparisons to another privileged teen, Tom Stark in “All the King’s Men.”
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Jack Burden, We Need You on Kavanaugh
The GOP is currently hiding Judge Kavanaugh’s past in the George W. Bush White House. Needed is Jack Burden from “All the King’s Men.”
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