Tag Archives: elections

Will AI Be Used To Suppress Votes?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 24, 2024

In 1973, an Angela Carter predicted the power of unreality to take over our lives. In 2024, AI may be proving her right.

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Carter Captures Trumpian Unreality

By Robin Bates | Published: December 1, 2021

Angela Carter’s “Infernal Machines of Doctor Hoffman” captures the unreality of the Trump years.

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Hunkering Down in Hard Times

By Robin Bates | Published: November 5, 2014

When your side loses in an election, be like Mary Oliver’s blue heron: hunker down, absorb the blows, and keep the fire of hope burning.

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Election Day as Trollope Describes it

By Robin Bates | Published: November 4, 2014

Anthony Trollope wittily describes an election in “Doctor Thorne.”

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