Radiologist Scott Atlas has Trump’s ear about Covid, with disastrous implications. Perhaps he thinks he’s Charles Atlas or the Atlas in “Atlas Shrugged.”
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Scott Atlas’s Miracle Covid Cure
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Biden-Trump Invites Dickens Comparisons
If one thinks of the 2020 election in Dickensian terms, several novels come to mind.
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Berryman Predicted Trump’s America
Berryman’s “Dream Song 46” is an unsettling description of today’s America.
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Viewing Trump from Afar
Trump has been diminished by his run-in with Covid, reminding me of various characters who suddenly become small: Carroll’s Red Queen, Baum’s Wizard, and the usurper in Craik’s “Little Lame Prince.”
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Trump & Covid: Tragedy or Farce?
Was the Rose Garden event for Trump’s new SCOTUS pick–which became a Covid superspreader event–a Shakespearean tragedy? How about a farce?
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Pratchett’s Solution to Police Violence
Wednesday That Breonna Taylor’s family is receiving a $12 million settlement and the promise of police reform following her wrongful shooting by Louisville police is in part a testimony to Black Lives Matters protests and other instances of public pressure. Without them, we might not even know her name. With that in mind, I return […]
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How to Overlook 200,000 Deaths
Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” captures why America might be overlooking 200,000 deaths at the moment.
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Kushner: Cheshire Cat Explains Trump
Jared Kushner has compared the Trump administration to “Alice in Wonderland.” A Washington Post satirist teases out parallels he probably didn’t have in mind.
A Pratchett Drama about Conmen
Pratchett’s “Going Postal,” a novel about a conman, captures much about our own Conman-in-Chief.
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