Tag Archives: Election 2024

To Stay Sane in 2025, Read Rasselas

Johnson’s Rasselas is must reading for those worrying about the next four years.

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On Election Night 2024, The Tempest

On Election Night 2024, I turned to a subplot in Shakespeare’s “Tempest” to understand what was going on.

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Note to Trump: Time for Real Work

Marge Piercy’s “To Be of Use” should be a reminder to incoming politicians that the real work of governing is not a television reality show.

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Defeating Dragon Despair after Harris Loss

The insights of “Beowulf” into grieving can provide Democrats guidance for dealing with Harris’s loss.

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Kipling’s Warning to Empires

Kipling’s “Recessional,” written as a warning to the British empire, applies as well to America today.

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Returning to a Desecrated Shire

Returning home after 7 weeks abroad feels like Frodo returning home to a devastated Shire.

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Rushdie on Dreams That Refuse to Die

While “Midnight’s Children” may apply only too closely to Trump-led America, there’s some room for hope in it as well.

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The Courage to Find Hope Within

A recent poem about hope–which many of us need at the moment.

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Stop the Clocks: This Is the Hour of Lead

Auden’s mourning poem “Stop All the Clocks” captures the mood of those who saw a fascist triumph in the American presidential election.

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