Tag Archives: DJT

C.S. Lewis Speaks for the Trees

By Robin Bates | Published: August 31, 2026

Images of Trumpian assaults on nature can be found in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle, where we encounter horrific images of deforestation.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 16, 2026

DJT escaping his plane in a catering cart while using reporters and staff as decoys is reminiscent of a scene in Stephen King’s Dead Zone.

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By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2026

Trump’s love affair with gold gilding alerts us as to how he would do were he given test Portia’s suitors must take in Merchant of Venice.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 10, 2026

DJT befouling all that is sacred is akin to Virgil’s harpies befouling Aeneas’s feast.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 5, 2026

A 1962 Richard Tillinghast poem remembering Hiroshima and fearing for the world’s future.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 4, 2026

García Márquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch captures the loneliness and private misery of a dictator seeking absolute power. DJT should take note.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2026

A Brecht poem captures how the press tried to ingratiate itself with the president at the recent White House Correspondents dinner.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2026

Not unlike the mad Captain Ahab, DJT threatens to sink our ship of state.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 12, 2026

Trump sycophant Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly yesterday. I turn to Beckett, Orwell, Conrad and Eliot to sum up the man.