Is Trump beginning to come across as a washed-up salesman like Loman in “Death of a Salesman” or Levene in “Glengarry Glen Ross”?
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Trump as Washed-Up Salesman?
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My Through the Looking-Glass Vote
Voting as a liberal in a red state can feel like Alice attempting to advance in a looking-glass world.
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Kamala Harris Can Be Our Jane Eyre
America’s relationship with Trump has been toxic. Jane Eyre shows us how to exit such relationships and Kamala Harris follows suit.
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6 Impossible Trump Lies before Breakfast
Lewis Carroll’s White Queen challenges Alice to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast. Six is a bare minimum for Trump supporters.
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Harris’s Use of Goneril Tactics
In Tuesday’s presidential debate, Harris played Goneril and Regan to Trump’s King Lear. With differences, of course.
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Silko and Trump on Weaving
In response to Trump’s defense that his rambling is verbal weaving, I look at applicable weaving imagery in Silko’s novel “Ceremony.”
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Harris’s Speech and a Baldwin Story
The shift in Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech–from heartwarming bio to Churchillian call to action–reminds me of the shift in Sonny’s jazz playing in Baldwin’s story.
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Kamala Harris’s Moment to Rise
Angelou’s “Still I Rise” is the right poem to celebrate Kamala Harris
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