The bargain of Goethe’s Faust includes not caring about others. Trumpists are entering into that bargain with Trump’s child separation policy.
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Tag Archives: Donald Trump
Trump, a Kane-Type Narcissist
Citzen Kane, Trump’s favorite film, brilliantly captures a narcissist. Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath also have things to say about narcissism.
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Using Lit to Battle Fake News
Authors can fight back against autocratic attempts to define reality but can no longer resort to classic realism, Salman Rushdie argues.
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Trump Reality: Puerto Rico a Success
Puerto Rico hurricane disaster, like the banana plantation massacre in “100 Years of Solitude,” has all but vanished from the airways.
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Trump, Clifton, & Immigrants as Animals
Trump describing immigrants as animals is scary stuff, as this Lucille Clifton poem makes clear.
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A Tale of Two Realities
The U.S. celebrating the opening of the Jerusalem embassy while Israeli soldier kill scores of Gaza protesters bring to mind Dickens’s “Tale of Two Cities.”
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Will “The Fat Man” Sell Out Jared?
Sounding like a character in “The Maltese Falcon,” Rudy Giuliani declared that Jared Kushner is “disposable.”
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Trump, Like Macbeth, Does Murder Sleep
“Macbeth,” a psychological study of a tyrant, also illumines aspects of Donald Trump.
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Comey vs. Trump, Two Alpha Dogs
James Comey is right to fight for American justice against Donald Trump but his male pride helped get Trump elected. Toni Morrison describes the dynamics in “Song of Solomon.”
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