Tag Archives: Justice

(Limitless Pity Makes All Large & New)

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2015

Spiritual Sunday Today’s Old Testament reading is the episode in the Book of Jonah after that conflicted man returns from the whale episode and this time does what God has commanded him to do, which is to prophesy to the people of Nineveh about their wickedness. In the Keith Schlegel poem I have chosen, one […]

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Shakespeare in the Courtroom

By Robin Bates | Published: April 16, 2014

A Georgia judge is guided by Shakespeare and sometimes cites the Bard in his rulings.

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Falstaff and the Stolen Valor Act

By Robin Bates | Published: March 15, 2012

Shakespeare’s Falstaff would be in violation of the Stolen Valor act, now being challenged before the Supreme Court.

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Osama, Obama, and Sam Spade

By Robin Bates | Published: May 4, 2011

There’s something about celebrating the killing of someone, even a mass murderer, that leaves me queasy. Exploring the parallel I drew Monday between America and Sam Spade helps me get a better grip on the issue.

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Comparing Jane Austen and Frank Capra

By Robin Bates | Published: October 1, 2010

Film Friday Teaching Sense and Sensibility in my Jane Austen First Year Seminar is giving me the chance to once again relish the magnificent way that the author dispenses poetic justice. This time through, I found that the ending of the novel reminds me of the ending of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. Since […]

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Sotomayor and Latina “Bias”

By Robin Bates | Published: May 28, 2009

I’m going to take a break from one political topic—the disillusion that some who voted for Barack Obama are experiencing or will experience (and the ability of Gulliver’s Travels to help idealists of all stripes to understand and work through disillusion)—to take on another. There is a (predictable) furor over President Obama’s choice of Sonia […]

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