Is Trump beginning to come across as a washed-up salesman like Loman in “Death of a Salesman” or Levene in “Glengarry Glen Ross”?
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Trump as Washed-Up Salesman?
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Terrible Beauty Born from Easter 1916?
Yeats’s “Easter, 1916” is a profound meditation on activism, including on the poet’s ambivalent feelings about Dublin’s Easter Rising.
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Rethinking Oleanna
I’m rethinking Mamet’s “Oleanna” after seeing a Slovenian philosophy student praise it. In the past, I have hated the play for what I see as its attack on feminism.
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Trump as Alpha Dog Wannabe
A recent “National Review” article says that Donald Trump is like those young men who watch “Glengarry Glen Ross” and fantasize about being the alpha dogs portrayed there.
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Political Extremism and Literary Classics
Hints of David Mamet’s and Ray Bradbury’s rightwing extremism can be found in their best known works.
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