Tag Archives: Election 2024

My Through the Looking-Glass Vote

By Robin Bates | Published: September 26, 2024

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

By Robin Bates | Published: September 25, 2024

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

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2024

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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Bunyan on Fiction vs. Lying

By Robin Bates | Published: September 17, 2024

Camus wrote that “fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” J.D. Vance has tried the same defense for his Haitian lies.

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Harris’s Use of Goneril Tactics

By Robin Bates | Published: September 11, 2024

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

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2024

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

By Robin Bates | Published: August 28, 2024

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

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2024

Angelou’s “Still I Rise” is the right poem to celebrate Kamala Harris

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Is Trump Set to Inherit the Wind?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2024

The way that the Bryan figure deflates in “Inherit the Wind” may prefigure Trump’s demise.

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