Tag Archives: COVID19

Is GOP a Death Cult? Ask Tolstoy

By Robin Bates | Published: June 24, 2020

Has the GOP become a death cult. Tolstoy’s description of suicidal behavior from Napoleon’s soldiers suggests yes.

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Making Charn Great Again

By Robin Bates | Published: May 17, 2020

How does one capture Trump’s disastrous handling of Covid? I invoke Jadis in “The Magician’s Nephew” destroying Charn.

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The Green Knight on Handling Death

By Robin Bates | Published: March 26, 2020

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is one of the most profound works I know for dealing with death.

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The Courage to Face the Darkness

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2020

In “IT” Stephen King shows how Americans close their eyes to horrific truths. Certain Americans have been closing their eyes to COVID19, showing King to know what he’s talking about.

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It’s a Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

By Robin Bates | Published: March 22, 2020

For those of us living in the lull before the COVID-19 storm, Swift’s “Description of a City Shower” captures what we’re experiencing–and about to experience.

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Journal of a Plague Year

By Robin Bates | Published: March 18, 2020

Defoe’s “Journal of the Plague Year” has many unsettling parallels with our current situation.

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider–in 1918 and Now

By Robin Bates | Published: March 17, 2020

Katherine Anne Porter’s novella about the 1918 flu epidemic may give us a glimpse into our own immediate future.

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