With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.
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Neither Rage Nor Tears but Radical Hope
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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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Revisiting “It Can’t Happen Here”
Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”
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Candide and the Deep State
Members of the MAGA cult resemble the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh in “Candide.”
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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