Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Our Lear Is Running to Be King Again

By Robin Bates | Published: October 29, 2024

In an essay reposted from 2017 that is still relevant, I compare Trump’s narcissism with King Lear’s.

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Trump, His Billionaires, and Ayn Rand

By Robin Bates | Published: October 24, 2024

Ayn Rand’s novels help explain why certain billionaires are gravitating to Donald Trump. Trump’s own enthusiasm about “The Fountainhead” is also revealing.

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Richard II and Our Own Succession Issues

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2024

Shakespeare’s “Richard II” maybe be about an absolute monarch but what it says about succession issues are relevant today.

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Swift on Media Sane-Washing

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2024

Jonathan Swift would have something to say about how the corporate media continues to sane-wash Donald Trump.

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Sane-Washing Vance and Mac the Knife

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2024

As I watched Vance sane-wash both Trump and himself in the debate, I thought of the sane-washing that occurs in Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera.”

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Trump as Washed-Up Salesman?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 29, 2024

Is Trump beginning to come across as a washed-up salesman like Loman in “Death of a Salesman” or Levene in “Glengarry Glen Ross”?

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Kamala Harris Can Be Our Jane Eyre

By Robin Bates | Published: September 25, 2024

America’s relationship with Trump has been toxic. Jane Eyre shows us how to exit such relationships and Kamala Harris follows suit.

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6 Impossible Trump Lies before Breakfast

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2024

Lewis Carroll’s White Queen challenges Alice to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast. Six is a bare minimum for Trump supporters.

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Laughter in the Presidential Campaign

By Robin Bates | Published: September 12, 2024

Trump and Vance’s jokes are designed to beat down, not include. They elicit Hobbesian laughter, not Shaftesburian.

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