Members of the MAGA cult resemble the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh in “Candide.”
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Pratchett’s Response to Intolerance
Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching novel “I Shall Wear Midnight” is a good counter to Christofascism.
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Biden and Auden’s Unknown Citizen
Auden’s “Unknown Citizen” looks better now than when the poet wrote the poem.
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Our Country, a Land of Poverty
Blake calls out those who claim to be Christians while mistreating the poor.
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Joe Biden as King Hrothgar
Biden’s low poll numbers may be because, like King Hrothgar in “Beowulf,” he can’t prevent violence from breaking out in the great hall.
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MAGA “Justice” and the Queen of Hearts
“Sentence first, verdict afterwards,” say both MAGA Republicans and Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts.
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MAGA & Regeneration thru Violence
MAGA’s increasingly violent rhetoric fits a long American tradition of regeneration through violence.
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Melville Would Have Understood Trump
Melville foresaw Trump in “Confidence Man.”
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Kundera Understood Authoritarianism
The late Milan Kundera understood the authoritarian mindset in a deep way. “Book of Laughter and Forgetting” and “Eternal Lightness of Being” capture the mindset.
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