Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll

Trump’s Latest Queen of Hearts Beheading

By Robin Bates | Published: May 11, 2017

Donald Trump is starting to resemble the Queen of Hearts with all the figures that he has fired, most recently FBI director James Comey. We must stand up to the Queen as Alice does.

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Curling Up with a Good Book

By Robin Bates | Published: February 4, 2017

This Scott Bates is a testimony to the solitary joy of reading.

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Is Trump Running a Red Queen Race?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 2, 2016

Turning to Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass,” political scientist Jonathan Bernstein says that Donald Trump is in a “Red Queen Race,” forced to be ever more outrageous just to keep the spotlight on himself.

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Christie as Prufrock & Other Lit Allusions

By Robin Bates | Published: March 2, 2016

Political pundits have been turning to literature to talk about the GOP primaries. This past week saw citations of Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Lewis Carroll, and Richard Adams (“Watership Down”).

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Speaker Paul Ryan in Literature

By Robin Bates | Published: November 4, 2015

I’ve written a lot about Paul Ryan and his aspiration to be a John Galt figure. Now that he is Speaker of the House, I review other literary parallels I’ve drawn over the years.

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Swimming with the Water Babies

By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2015

Swimming with my granddaughters put me in mind of Charles Kingsley’s “Water Babies.” Kingsley helped us enter into the rich imaginative lives of children.

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Media Is Like White Queen: Scream First

By Robin Bates | Published: January 29, 2015

Lewis Carroll’s White Queen, whose hysteria precedes rather than follows traumatic events, anticipates our modern media.

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Alice in Standardized Education Land

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2015

“Alice in Wonderland” can be read as an early attack on standardized education.

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“Alice” Shaped Joyce Carol Oates

By Robin Bates | Published: July 8, 2014

“Alice in Wonderland” is the book that changed the life of Joyce Carol Oates.

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