How to maintain hope in the face of catastrophic climate change? Hope is key, as Emily Dickinson and John Muir understood.
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Earth-Hearted Hope for Dark Times
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Tim Scott’s Self-Debasement
Sen. Tim Scott’s self-abasement before Donald Trump brings to mind various “Uncle Tom” poems written by Black authors.
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Revisiting “It Can’t Happen Here”
Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”
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Conquering the Darkness Within
Pratchett’s novel “Thud!” is a plea to find inner strength rather than yielding to blind rage.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Buch-Cheney administration, Islamic fundamentalism, Terrorism, Terry Pratchett, Thud!, Tom Nichols Comments closed
Gandalf and Saruman, Biden and Trump
The both-siderism that equates Trump with Biden would probably equate Saruman with Gandalf.
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Trump’s Love Test Resembles Lear’s
Trump, like Lear, sets up love tests for followers. South Carolina Sen. Scott recently “passed” in the same way that Goneril and Regan pass.
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Taylor Swift as Snow White
Trump’s jealousy of Taylor Swift resembles that of the evil queen in “Snow White.” Anne Sexton’s own Snow White poem explains how jealousy works.
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Trump as Captain Queeg
Donald Trump as Captain Queeg and the captain in Eggers’s novel “Captain and the Glory.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Andrew Cuomo, Caine Mutiny, Captain and the Glory, COVID-19, David Eggers, Herman Wouk, Maureen Dowd, Mutiny on the Bounty., New Hampshire primary Comments closed
You, Governor Haley, Are No Beowulf
Trump may be a Grendel but unfortunately Nikki Haley is no Beowulf.
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