In his popular novel “Kafka on the Shore,” Murakami explores the kind of sadism that we are currently witnessing in Trump’s MAGA supporters.
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Using Murakami to Explore MAGA Sadism
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1Q84 Provides Insight into MAGA
Murakami’s account of cult behavior in “1Q84” applies only too well to MAGA behavior in current day America.
On Claiming Christ While Hating the Poor
A Joe Fasano poem calling out “Those Who Call Themselves Christian but Seek to Divide and Conquer the World”
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Trump CEOs and Plantation Mentality
Trump-supporting CEOs have a plantation mentality, which explains why they tolerate him. Think “Gone with the Wind” entitlement.
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
Shapiro’s “Shakespeare in a Divided America” shows that the Bard has made an appearance in most of American history’s key moments.
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A Florida County Targeted Paradise Lost
Milton’s Paradise Lost, banned by a Florida County this past year, exposes the hypocrites who have taken it off school library shelves.
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Not Rage Or Tears but Radical Hope
With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.
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Covid PTSD and the Green Knight
Has Covid-caused PTSD created a MAGA death cult? I turn to “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” written in response to the Black Plague, for perspective.
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