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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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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