Trump is like Don Quixote in that both deny reality. Quixote has much more benevolent motives, however.
Tag Archives: COVID-19
Trump Tilts with Reality
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Swift on How to Ignore 115,000 Deaths
Trump and others appear to be shrugging off the 115,000 (and counting) Covid-19 deaths in America. Gulliver in Book IV shows similar insensitivity.
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Secret Garden, Perfect Pandemic Reading
A “Paris Review” writer makes a great case that we should reread “Secret Garden” during the pandemic.
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Does a Mask Tell Us More than a Face?
Oscar Wilde once wrote that a mask tells us more than a face. Does this apply to coronavirus masks?
Reading Montaigne While Confined
In “Gentleman in Moscow,” the count turns to “Robinson Crusoe” to figure out how to survive. Reading Montaigne is a mixed bag.
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Students as Beowulf vs. Covid
Through describing their essays on “Beowulf,” I recount how five students are responding to the Covid crisis.
Choose Life over Needless Sacrifice
Trump wants people to gamble with their lives to open up the economy. These works remind us that life is too precious to be sqandered this way.
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Gide’s Immoralist & Trump’s Double Game
Trump plays a double game, pretending to be president while acting like a teenage rebel. So does Michel in André Gide’s “Immoralist.”
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