Tag Archives: GOP

Has Voldemort Cursed the GOP?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 24, 2023

What is causing such instability when Republicans attempt to choose a Speaker? Harry Potter may have the answer.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2023

Rightwing intellectuals are now advocating “Red Caesarism.” Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” provides some insights.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2023

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards,” say both MAGA Republicans and Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2023

“Rumpelstiltskin,” cited by a judge turning down a Trump request, is only too applicable, both to Trump and to the GOP.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 22, 2023

Many on the extreme right are defining “freedom” in ways that Orwell would recognize.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 21, 2023

Some in the GOP want to bring back child labor. Kingsolver, Dickens and Browning weigh in on the subject.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2023

Nikki Haley, who has just announced her presidential ambitions, resembles Tom Parsons in “1984”–which is to say, a soulless apparatchik.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 10, 2022

Two passages from “Beowulf” to capture feelings of despondency and elation, depending on how the election went for you.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2022

Longfellow’s “The Brook and the Ocean” capture some of the dynamics of the 2022 mid-term election.