Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll

Kushner: Cheshire Cat Explains Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: September 17, 2020

Jared Kushner has compared the Trump administration to “Alice in Wonderland.” A Washington Post satirist teases out parallels he probably didn’t have in mind.

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The GOP, through the Looking Glass

By Robin Bates | Published: January 28, 2020

Cartoonist Tom Toles has a very smart Alice-through-the-Looking-Glass take on Trump and the GOP.

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Hopefully, Trump Is the Queen of Hearts

By Robin Bates | Published: January 8, 2020

Is Trump like Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts? In the case of Iran, let’s hope so.

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GOP’s Best Case: We’re All Mad

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2019

Two literary allusions by a Trump defender in yesterday’s impeachment hearings don’t bode well for the president.

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And Thick and Fast, They Came at Last

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2019

People are now rushing forth to reveal Trump secrets–like the oysters in “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”

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Following Barr Down the Rabbit Hole

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2019

Thursday I haven’t quoted the Alice books for a while, even though in the past I have turned to them many times to capture America’s fractured politics. We are now so far down the rabbit hole, however, or so deep into the looking glass, that Lewis Carroll is must reading. On a general level, we […]

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The Dreamlike Pleasures of Rowing

By Robin Bates | Published: July 31, 2018

In “Alice through the Looking Glass,” boating is a metaphor for life slipping by–unnoticed by Alice but seen as deeply tragic by Carroll.

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Senior Projects and Alice’s Rabbit Hole

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2018

I compare senior theses to Alice falling down a rabbit hole. But not in the way you think.

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Literature Has Paul Ryan’s Number

By Robin Bates | Published: April 12, 2018

Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Chinua Achebe, John Milton, and Thomas Hardy see through men like departing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

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