Trump sycophant Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly yesterday. I turn to Beckett, Orwell, Conrad and Eliot to sum up the man.
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Tag Archives: George Orwell
The Lost Honor of Lindsey Graham
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hollow Men", 1984, Anne Appelbaum, Captive Mind, collaborators, Czeslaw Milosz, DJT, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Lindsey Graham, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Waiting for Godot Leave a comment
Trump’s Duck Soup of a War
Trump’s Tehran bombing is like a mash-up of George Orwell and the Marx Brothers.
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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.”)
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ozymandias", 1984, anti-abortion movement, censorship, E. D. Hirsch, Fascism, Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Hubbell, Trumpism Comments closed
Trumpists Edge Closer to 1984
The Education secretary telling universities they should be in sync with the administration’s goals is further proof that it is following Big Brother’s playbook: Ignorance is strength.
Mirror on the Wall, Who Is Evilest?
Lit Hub had a reader poll to determine the evilest literary character. Maybe not surprisingly in the Trump era, Orwell’s dictator won.
Posted in Ayn Rand, Uncategorized Also tagged 1984, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Evil, Sigmund Freud, Stand, Stephen King, Walt Kelly Comments closed
Kafka and America’s Disappeared
America is “disappearing” people, bringing to mind the fate of K in Kafka’s “Trial.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 1984, Franz Kafka, Handmaid's Tale, ICE, immigration terror, Margaret Atwood, Martin Niemöller, Trial Comments closed
Fighting the Erasure of History
Black history month is more essential these days than it has been for a while given Trump’s desire to erase it. Black writers are important in keeping it alive.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "i am accused of tending to the past", "Life Every Voice and Sing", 1984, Black History Month, DEI, Donald Trump, James Weldon Johnson, Lucille Clifton, racism Comments closed
Orwell Foresaw the Dangers of AI
In “Prevention of Literature,” Orwell anticipates AI and how authoritarians will attempt to use it–and to ban or rewrite Literature.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged artificial intelligence, authoritarianism, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Prevention of Literature Comments closed
Trump’s Orwellian Cabinet Picks
1984 understands Trumpism like few other books.