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Time to Reread Fahrenheit 451

By Robin Bates | Published: January 27, 2022

With attacks on school libraries and school curricula, it’s time to read “Fahrenheit 451” again.

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A President Who Hates Books

By Robin Bates | Published: January 8, 2018

No president has been so adverse to reading as Donald Trump, whose contempt for books conjures up images of “Fahrenheit 451.”

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Political Extremism and Literary Classics

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2012

Hints of David Mamet’s and Ray Bradbury’s rightwing extremism can be found in their best known works.

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Analyzing Loughner’s Booklist

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2011

Like much of America, I am still in a state of shock over Saturday’s shooting of a Congresswoman, a judge, and 16 others. Like many I wonder if this was an example of a disturbed mind encountering the inflamed political rhetoric that has come to characterize American political discourse. (Add Arizona’s permissive gun laws into […]

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Ignoring Books–Another Way to Burn Them

By Robin Bates | Published: February 17, 2010

Read, reflect, act. That is my vision for how we should respond to literature. Therefore I was pleased to see a version of this advice appearing in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I’m reading Bradbury’s dystopia because I will be leading a discussion of it tom0rrow as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big […]

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