Tag Archives: GOP

Truth in ’24, a Pearl of Great Price

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2024

Biden called for truth telling in a recent speech, reminding me of Cowper’s “The Task.”

By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2023

Certain GOP pols are behaving like Dickens villains when it comes to the poor.

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.