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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Is Trump Running a Red Queen Race?
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Christie as Prufrock & Other Lit Allusions
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
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
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
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
“Alice in Wonderland” can be read as an early attack on standardized education.
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“Alice” Shaped Joyce Carol Oates
“Alice in Wonderland” is the book that changed the life of Joyce Carol Oates.
Rumsfeld through the Looking Glass
Interviewing Donald Rumsfeld is like entering Alice’s looking glass world.
Lewis Carroll’s Revolt against “Reality”
“Alice in Wonderland” was Carroll’s protest against Victorian society.