Hammett’s “Red Harvest” is an autocratic fantasy that has little basis in reality—but it still guides some people who support Trump.
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Hammett’s Autocratic Fantasy
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Twain: Autocrats Fear Being Laughed At
In “Mysterious Stranger,” Twain calls upon us to laugh at autocrats—even when it gets us in trouble, as it did Late Night’s Stephen Colbert.
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America’s Concentration Camps
Trump concentration camp Alligator Alcatraz is sending me to poems written about the Nazi concentration camps.
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Yeats Had Fascism’s Number
Poets in the 1920s and 1930s understood their fascists, including Yeats in this poem.
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Rightwing Justices as the Dursleys
Think of the rightwing SCOTUS justices as Vernon and Petunia Dursley—with Trump as their spoiled kid
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Toxic Masculinity Expressed thru Bombs
The toxic masculinity that may explain why Trump bombed Iran exacts a price on those caught up in it, as Adrienne Rich makes clear.
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Trump-Musk, Sauron-Saruman
Think of Trump as Sauron and Musk as Saruman in their recent tiff.
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The Song of Angry Americans
As Trump attends a performance of “Les Misérables,” I apply passages from the novel to his military crackdown on protest.
Trump=Gingham Dog, Musk=Calico Cat
Think of the Trump-Musk spat as the gingham dog vs. the calico cat from the Eugene Field poem.
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