Tag Archives: Election 2024

Kamala Harris Meets the Fisher King

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2024

Harris rejuvenating the race after taking over from Biden brings to mind the myth of the fisher king.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 31, 2024

Think of Trump as Chaucer’s Pardoner, a conman who thinks he can trick people he’s revealed his tricks to.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 28, 2024

Gymnast GOAT Biles has a tattoo of a line from Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” to inspire her.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 25, 2024

Le Guin’s “Farthest Shore” has insights applicable to the Biden-Harris succession.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 22, 2024

After the shooting, some Trump allies wanted to believe it had softened him. And Rabbit thinks Tigger can be unbounced.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 15, 2024

With Republicans attempting to blame Democrats for the Trump shooting, let’s look at what Borges says about conspiracy theories.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 11, 2024

Feel depressed about Election 2024? Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas” has some good advice.

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 10, 2024

Election anxieties from listening to a seashell. That and James Stephens’s poem “The Shell.”

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 4, 2024

Think of Biden as Beowulf facing the dragon at the end of his reign. And then think of how Wiglaf responds, which is to support him fully.