Tag Archives: Jorge Louis Borges

A Bookstore and the Library of Babel

By Robin Bates | Published: March 17, 2024

Attending a good bookstore makes me realize how relatively little I have read. Borges’s “Library of Babel” makes one feel similarly small.

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Borges and the Impeachment Labyrinth

By Robin Bates | Published: May 27, 2019

Tuesday Last week I cited a passage from Jorge Luis Borges’s “Death and the Compass” when pondering whether we are overanalyzing Donald Trump. I turn to the same story today to address whether the Democrats are overcomplicating their response to the president’s behavior. While many commentators believe launching an impeachment inquiry is a no-brainer given […]

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