In response to attempted takeovers such as Elon Musk’s, poet Ilya Kaminsky urges us to wake up and resist. Anne Lamott suggests some of the forms this can take.
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Responding to the Musk-Trump Coup
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Franklin on Freedom of the Press
Benjamin Franklin’s poem about the necessity of a free press is remarkably timely.
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Humorless Twitter Boss as Malvolio
Elon Musk sparring with his Twitter critics is like Shakespeare’s Malvolio going after Feste.
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Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio
Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
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Is Twitter Headed for Bleak House?
Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”
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