Monday A conservative reader the other day accused me of relentlessly using this blog as “an anti-Trump cudgel,” which got me thinking about whether I was indeed guilty of losing perspective. Was I in the grip of what Balzac calls an “idée fixe”—which is to say, an obsession that defines a life? According to Encyclopedia […]
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On Using Lit as a Cudgel
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Balzac’s Gobseck Understands Trump
Balzac’s dazzling novella “Gobseck” finds the measure of the Trumps and other billionaires who sell out the nation.
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