Tag Archives: Fascism

To Survive Trump, Be Like Lizzie

By Robin Bates | Published: December 31, 2024

How to survive Trumpism’s anticipated assaults on democracy? Reading Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a good place to start.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 16, 2024

With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 13, 2024

The novella Clockwork Orange captures the process of fascist conditioning, such as we are seeing carried out by Putin on swatches of the GOP.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2024

Trump’s suffering the the Manhattan courtroom is his own version of Dante’s Inferno.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 8, 2024

How to withstand Trump’s incessant assaults on democracy? Be like Lizzie in “Goblin Market.”

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2024

Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 9, 2024

In “Snuff” one of Terry Pratchett’s angriest book, the author takes on racism, ethnocentrism, and intolerance.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 25, 2023

Sebald’s novel “Austerlitz” provides insights to fascism than anticipate Trump.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 14, 2023

Trump’s use of “vermin” to characterize his enemies is fascist talk. “Gulliver’s Travels” shows where such talk can lead.