Texas’s new abortion law, which incentives citizens to snitch on their neighbors, brings to mind “Handmaid’s Tale,” “1984,” and “Northanger Abbey.”
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Atwood & Austen on Abortion in Texas
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GOP’s New Math: 2 + 2 = 5
Now even Republicans are citing 1984 in response to Trump’s claims of voter fraud.
1984, the Novel That Never Gets Old
1984, always relevant. Now more than ever.
The Real Face of Patriotism
When William McRaven asked, out of sympathy with John Brennan, that his own security clearance be withdrawn, he behaved like Brecht’s poet in “Burning of the Books.”
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GOP Epitaph: “He Loved Big Brother”
Why has the GOP become Trump’s party? Because they have learned to love Big Brother.
Trump’s Transcript & the Ministry of Truth
Trump tells us to “read the transcript,” as if it exonerates him rather than condemns him. It’s a Big Brother move.
Brecht on Speaking Truth to Power
Monday A Bertolt Brecht poem came to mind when Retired Navy Admiral William H. McRaven came to the defense of former CIA Director John Brennan, stripped of his security clearance by a Donald Trump angry at his criticisms. Vox has the story of what happened: The man who led the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in […]
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