Optimistic about the future, feminist Solnit sees the right panicking over liberalism’s advances. Her Gramsci quote echoes Matthew Arnold and Virginia Woolf.
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Tag Archives: Fascism
Optimism in the Face of Trumpism
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Oct. 18, No Kings Day: Arise, Now, Arise
White House advisor and resident fascist Stephen Miller has been playing Wormtongue to old and demented Trump.
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Poetic Advice for Those Feeling Exhausted
If Trumpism is exhausting you, this O’Donohue poem is restorative.
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Le Guin and the Power of Affirmation
Le Guin’s story “Things” provides hope for those feeling daunted by Trump’s assault on American democracy.
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Lit, a Critical Defense against Fascism
Have Democrat’s suffered from a lack of imagination? Literature can help fix that. (For instance, “Handmaid’s Tale,” “1984,” and “Ozymandias.”)
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Ibsen Advice for Resisting Trump
I reflect on Stockmann’s “you should never wear your best trousers when you fight for freedom and truth” in Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People.”
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Superman and Kavalier and Clay
Superman has anti-fascist roots, as Chabon explains in his novel “Kavalier and Clay.”
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Whitman: Resist Much, Obey Little
Walt Whitman called for people to “resist much, obey little.” Good advice for those living under an authoritarian government.