Tag Archives: COVID-19

Trump as Captain Queeg

By Robin Bates | Published: January 29, 2024

Donald Trump as Captain Queeg and the captain in Eggers’s novel “Captain and the Glory.”

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David’s Music in a Time of Illness

By Robin Bates | Published: June 25, 2022

This Hecht poem about David performing for Saul soothed my own bout with illness.

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Kesey, Spokesman for Reactionary Men

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2022

“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” anticipates rightwing attacks on women and people of color.

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Apparition of Unmasked Student Faces

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2022

The apparition of unmasked student faces brought to mind Ezra Pound’s famous poem.

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Rogers, Covid, and Atlas Shrugged

By Robin Bates | Published: January 12, 2022

Quarterback Rogers’s favorite book, “Atlas Shrugged,” helps explain his Covid resistance.

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More Time Spent in the Covid Sewers

By Robin Bates | Published: December 26, 2021

In a repost from March, I see our Covid slog as similar to Jean Valjean trudging through the Paris sewers.

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Mrs. Dalloway on Moving Past Covid

By Robin Bates | Published: December 8, 2021

Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” shows us how to juggle this uncertain moment in the Covid pandemic.

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Sin, Death, and a Pro-Covid GOP

By Robin Bates | Published: December 2, 2021

As the GOP becomes a pro-Covid party, they resemble Satan in “Paradise Lost,” unleashing death upon humankind.

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A Mimeo Fable Explains Vax Foes

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2021

A Scott Bates fable captures Trumpist authoritarianism when it comes to vaccine resistance.

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