Tag Archives: Jim Jordan

GOP Intellectuals Want a “Red Caesar”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2023

Rightwing intellectuals are now advocating “Red Caesarism.” Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” provides some insights.

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Jordan: Mac the Knife without the Charm

By Robin Bates | Published: November 14, 2019

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan has all the effrontery of John Gay’s Mac the Knife, although none of the charm.

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Exposing Stalin-Style Fake News

By Robin Bates | Published: March 3, 2019

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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