If “Huck Finn” has predictive value, the class tensions within today’s GOP will be papered over by racism.
Tag Archives: Mark Twain
GOP Whites Splitting? Huck Finn Says No
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Kid Fight in Congress
At times, Congress looks like two kids squabbling in “Tom Sawyer”–only in this case, the stakes are much higher and one side refuses to act like an adult.
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Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
“Sandy” conjures up for me a traumatic childhood reading experience along with a passage from “The Tempest.”
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Summertime and the Living Is Easy
An afternoon spent in a friend’s boat brought to mind Huck and Jim watching the Mississippi River.
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The Myth of Slaves as Faithful Companions
A visiting lecture on “Slaves as Loyal Confederates” reminded me of the complex relationships between black and white as they are explored by Twain and Stowe.
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Schools Cowed by the Religious Right
Holly Blumner had a vision. A member of the St. Mary’s theater department, Holly wanted to stage Susan Zeder’s Mother Hicks, a adolescent girl’s identity quest, and then take it into area schools. This post is the story about how rightwing groups have so terrified our schools that the vision died.
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