Rightwing intellectuals are now advocating “Red Caesarism.” Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” provides some insights.
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GOP Intellectuals Want a “Red Caesar”
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Jordan: Mac the Knife without the Charm
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan has all the effrontery of John Gay’s Mac the Knife, although none of the charm.
Exposing Stalin-Style Fake News
Monday NeverTrumper Jennifer Rubin made a Stalin allusion on MSNBC’s A. M. Joy yesterday that caught my eye because I am currently reading a novel about Stalin’s Soviet Union during the German invasion. Vasily Grossman’s extraordinary Life and Fate (1960), resembles Tolstoy’s War and Peace in the way it captures the country at a moment […]
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