Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” captures why America might be overlooking 200,000 deaths at the moment.
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How to Overlook 200,000 Deaths
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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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Is John Kelly a Man for All Seasons?
Trump’s derogatory comments about the military would have been overheard by Gen. Kelly, who has been silent. “Man for All Seasons” helps us understand the meaning of such silence.
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Trump’s Shadows? The Nothing That Is
Satirist Alexandra Petri uses a Wallace Stevens line to satirize Donald Trump’s conspiracy mongering.
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Novels That Predicted a Trump
Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” and Roth’s “Plot against America” do a very good job of predicting a Donald Trump.
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Wanted: A Pragmatic Idealism
In Ghosh’s first novel “Circle of Reason,” extreme rationality is shown to be blinkered and vulnerable. In the end, it must be blended with pragmatism, a good lesson for today’s politics.
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