The disillusion of Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown may prove to be America’s in a post-Trump world.
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Will Trump Turn Us into Goodman Brown?
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On Mark McGwire and Fallen Idols
Robert Redford in The Natural I take a momentary break from Margaret Edson’s W;t to address Mark McGwire’s confession yesterday to having used steroids. The man whose homerun race with Sammy Sosa “saved baseball” and who then refused to “speak about the past” in a Congressional hearing is finally opening up. Or at least opening […]
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