Tag Archives: GOP

1984, the Novel That Never Gets Old

By Robin Bates | Published: May 11, 2021

1984, always relevant. Now more than ever.

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Is a Fair Election Fight Still Possible?

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2021

“Prince Caspian” has a fight that foregrounds the issues the U.S. confronts regarding free and fair elections.

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Lord, How This World Is Given to Lying

By Robin Bates | Published: May 4, 2021

Trump’s big lie about winning in 2020, which has become gospel in certain GOP circles, brings to mind Falstaff’s lying.

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Joyce’s Eveline & Vaccine Resistance

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2021

Republicans refusing the Covid vaccine remind me of Eveline in Joyce’s “Dubliners.”

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Doonesbury, the Bard, & Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2021

“All’s Well That Ends Well” can work as an allegory for our polarized times.

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Texas GOP Tilts with Windmills

By Robin Bates | Published: February 18, 2021

As the Texas power grid implodes in the fact of arctic weather, the GOP pulls a Quixote and blames… windmills.

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Hawthorne Understood Mobs

By Robin Bates | Published: January 31, 2021

Hawthorne writes about the kind of mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol in “My Kinsman, Major Molineux.”

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Can GOP Wash Its Hands of Capitol Blood?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 11, 2021

While the Macbeths share many traits with Trump and his GOP enablers, they had least have the capacity for self-reflection.

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Promises on the Year’s Darkest Evening

By Robin Bates | Published: December 20, 2020

When we have a president who is governed by self-gratification, Frost’s famous poem about honoring obligations is what we need.

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