The Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives has been behaving like Satan in “Paradise Lost.” They would be advised to see what happens to Milton’s anti-hero.
Tag Archives: GOP
Satanic Fury from the Freedom Caucus
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Congress, Freedom Caucus, House of Representatives, John Milton, Paradise Lost, politics Comments closed
Boehner’s Monkey and Ellison’s Sambo
Speaker John Boehner may keep a wind-up monkey to express how he feels jerked around by the rightwing Freedom Caucus, which prompted him to resign. There is a similar puppet in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” also signifying emasculation and humiliation.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Freedom Congress, House of Representatives, Invisible Man, John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, leadership, Paul Ryan, Ralph Ellison Comments closed
Hillary before Judges Like Tolstoy’s Pierre
The Congressional Committee to Investigate Benghazi is like the military tribunal in “War and Peace” that questions Pierre. It is interested only in answers to lead to conviction.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Benghazi, Benghazi investigation, Congress, Leo Tolstoy, politics, War and Peace Comments closed
Tolstoy and Climate Change Denial
The denial of the citizens of Moscow as Napoleon approaches the city, described by Tolstoy in “War in Peace,” resembles climate change denialism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged climate change, climate change denialism, Environmentalism, global warming, Leo Tolstoy, politics, War and Peace Comments closed
Pope Francis as Shaw’s St. Joan
Christianity is all very well in its place, but when Pope Francis comes to America counseling a dismantling of capitalism, he gets the same response that Joan of Arc does in “St. Joan.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged George Bernard Shaw, Pope Francis, poverty, St. Joan Comments closed
The Abortion Debate & Doll’s House
Our society’s impasse over abortion is like the impasse in Ibsen’s “Doll’s House” between Thorvald and Nora: he insists on moral absolutes, she resents being infantilized.
The GOP Descends into the Maelstrom
Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom” describes the state of current GOP politics, where even moderate Republicans are being pulled into rightwing extremism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Descent into the Maelstrom, Donald Trump, Edgar Allen Poe, GOP debates, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Marco Rubio Comments closed
Trump as the Duke of Bilgewater
Although a couple of recent articles have compared Donald Trump to Pap in “Huckleberry Finn,” I find him to be much more akin to the Duke and the Dauphin. Which is to say, an ace con artist.
Donald Trump as Willie Stark
Donald Trump calling out the GOP establishment is like Willie Stark calling out the Democratic establishment in “All the King’s Men.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged All the King's Men, Donald Trump, Fox News, Republican primary, Robert Penn Warren Comments closed
