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Fighting the Erasure of History
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Auden on Living in an Age of Anxiety
In “Age of Anxiety,” Auden explains why it’s so hard to pierce fascism’s bubble.
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Trump Has Let Slip the Lapdogs of War
In pardoning the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, Trump has cried “havoc” and let slip the dogs of war (to quote from “Julius Caesar”).
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Jesus, Defender of the Oppressed
Washington bishop Budde pleaded with Trump to be merciful, following in the tradition of Jesus and Nicagaruan poet Ernesto Cardenal.
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Le Guin: Imagining Trump Alternatives
In wrestling how to counter Trumpism, Le Guin counsels us to expand what we see as possible.
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On Odysseus & Trump’s Desecration
Odysseus lambasts the suitors for desecrating all that is holy. One can imagine him doing the same to Trump.
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Trump and Satan, Both Miserable
Trump is as miserable as Milton’s Satan (and also a character in a Trollope novel). Unfortunately, like Satan, he does all he can to pull others into his well of misery.
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On Election Night 2024, The Tempest
On Election Night 2024, I turned to a subplot in Shakespeare’s “Tempest” to understand what was going on.
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To Survive Trump, Be Like Lizzie
How to survive Trumpism’s anticipated assaults on democracy? Reading Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a good place to start.
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