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Gulliver Reminds Us of Civic Virtue
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On Portia, Milosz, and Pardoning Trump
Should Biden pardon Trump. This article, citing “Merchant of Venice” and a Milosz poem, argues no.
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Responding to the Verdict: Trump & Fagin
How did Trump feel as the verdict was delivered? Perhaps like Fagin in “Oliver Twist.”
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Awaiting the Verdict
Will Trump once again escape justice? An Emily Dickinson poem captures the sentiments of those of us who fear he will.
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To Be Trump’s VP, Leap and Creep
The competition to be Trump’s VP resembles the stick leaping and crawling contest in Lilliput.
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Trump, Stormy, and The Waste Land
The Stormy Daniels-Trump encounter resembles the sordid sex scene found in T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land.”
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The Founders vs. Dostoyevsky’s Inquisitor
Christian nationalists have the same objections to democracy that Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor has to Christ’s vision.
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Trumpian Darkness or True Light? Choose
Trump and many of his fans twist themselves in the perpetual torment of their resentment and anger. Henry Vaughan describes their state in “The World.”
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Would Willy Loman Be a Trump Supporter?
Donald Trump as Willy Loman? Well, both are dreamers. Only one of them, however, is cruel.
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