I reflect on Stockmann’s “you should never wear your best trousers when you fight for freedom and truth” in Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People.”
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Ibsen Advice for Resisting Trump
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Ibsen on Why MAGA Hates Experts
Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” helps us understand MAGA’s hatred of expertise.
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Ibsen for Character Formation
Woolf’s “Voyage Out” explores how literature contributes to character formation.
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Alabama Returning Women to Doll’s House
Friday I’m missing much of the news as I travel across country but managed to hear about Alabama threatening doctors who perform abortions with 99-year prison sentences. Here’s a post I wrote four years ago about how state legislatures are infantilizing women. I managed some optimism then but, with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh now on the […]
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.
SCOTUS Traps Women in Doll’s House
The Supreme Court, with its Hobby Lobby decision, is reminiscent of patronizing Torvald Helmer in Ibsen’s “Doll’s House.”
Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters
Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.
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