Biden’s low poll numbers may be because, like King Hrothgar in “Beowulf,” he can’t prevent violence from breaking out in the great hall.
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Joe Biden as King Hrothgar
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New Monument Protected against Witchery
The new Ancestral Footprints National Monument closes the land to uranium mining. Leslie Marmon Silko should be glad.
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Warning to Fans of Authoritarianism
Applying “The Frogs Who Wished for a King” to the U.S., Biden is King Log and Trump King Crane.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aesop, Aesop's Fables, authoritarianism, Democracy, Donald Trump, Frogs Who Wished for a King, Tom Nichols Comments closed
Joe Biden as a Tom Robbins Character
Think Biden is too old? See what Tom Robbins in “Jitterbug Perfume” says about such complaints.
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Heaney and the Good Friday Agreement
Looking back at Northern Ireland’ Good Friday agreement, Clinton has cited a Seamus Heaney poem. There’s good reason for this.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Cure at Troy", Bill Clinton, Good Friday agreement, Ireland, Irish Troubles, Northern Ireland, Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney Comments closed
A Bridge Poem for Infrastructure Week
An early 20th century bridge poem by popular Tennessee poet Will Allen Dromgoole is hokey but captures the spirit of Biden’s new infrastructure bill.
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Biden as Dryden’s Ideal Leader
Biden’s suspense wearing thin on vaccine resistance reminds me of King David in Dryden’s “Absalom and Architophel.”
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Frozen in the Ice of Indifference
The difference between politicians who care and those who don’t is the difference between Dante’s Purgatory and Inferno.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Afghan withdrawal, American presidency, Dante, Donald Trump, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inferno, Purgatorio Comments closed
The Afghan Debacle, a Greek Tragedy
There’s an element of Greek tragedy in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, starting with arrogance and ending with fate.
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