The Texas Board of Education is requiring Biblical passages now. This may be a good thing.
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The Bible in English Classes? Good Idea
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bible, Genesis, separation of church and state, Texas Board of Education Leave a comment
A Novel Predicted A.I., Zoom, the Internet
Forster’s 1913 novella predicted how our lives would one day be ruled by the internet and A.I.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged A.I., Becky Chambers, Direction of the Road, dystopian fiction, E.M. Forster, Internet, Machine Stops, Psalm for the Wild-Built, Ursula K Le Guin Comments closed
MAGA News Too Much? Be Mithridates
Housman’s “Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff” provides useful advice for emotionally surviving Trumpism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Terence This Is Stupid Stuff", A. E. Housman, MAGA, Trumpism Comments closed
Dickinson, Crane, and the Epstein Affair
Can we ever know the full truth about the Epstein and friends? A Stephen Crane poem expresses doubts, a Dickinson poem is more optimistic.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Tell all the truth but tell it slant", Emily Dickinson, Epstein affair, Jeffrey Epstein, Stephen Crane, Truth Comments closed
A.I. and the Tech Bro Accelerationists
AI is the darling of Silicon Valley accelerationists, who sound like the old Italian Futurists and who appear never to have read Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Andy Beckett, climate change, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frankenstein, Italian Futurism, Macbeth, Mary Shelley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tobias Wilson-Bates, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Artists Leading the Resistance
Artists like Bruce Springsteen are taking on Donald Trump, whose attacks on art and artists is straight out the fascist playbook.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Badlands", Bruce Springsteen, Donald Trump, Fascism, John Pavlovitz Comments closed
The Darkness at the Heart of Whiteness
Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is all too applicable to the Musk administration’s attempts to destroy America.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Elon Musk, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Prevail, white supremacy Comments closed
How to Live under Authoritarianism
In “Envoy of Mr. Cogito,” Zbigniew Herbert informs us how to respond to authoritarian rule. We may need his poem as we face another four years of Donald Trump.
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Vlad’s Black Riders, Trump’s Tell-Tale Heart
Recent literature citations by opinion writers include “Lord of the Rings,” “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Amanda Marcotte, Edgar Allan Poe, J.R.R. Tolkien, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Lord of the Rings, Secret police, Tell-Tale Heart, Trump trials, Washington Irving Comments closed