How did Trump feel as the verdict was delivered? Perhaps like Fagin in “Oliver Twist.”
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Responding to the Verdict: Trump & Fagin
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Anti-Vaxxers Ignore the Past
Anti-vaxxers should read 19th century novels, which describe high mortality rates
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The Fearsome Georgia Bulldogs
To honor the world champion Georgia Bulldogs, I compare them to the bulldog (actually, bull terrier) in “Oliver Twist.”
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Indecipherable Texts of a Magic Spell
Murakami’s “1Q84” has a magical passage about the power of literature.
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Biden-Trump Invites Dickens Comparisons
If one thinks of the 2020 election in Dickensian terms, several novels come to mind.
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Lit that Championed Chimney Sweeps
Watching modern chimney sweeps at work, I’m relieved that we’ve left behind the days of William Blake and Charles Dickens.
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Migrant Kids in a Dickensian Nightmare
Wednesday As the Trump administration’s treatment of children at the border continues to horrify the nation, Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist comes to mind. There you have another child caught up in a nightmare where ideology overwhelms basic humanity. Whereas most of us see the death of a child as overwhelmingly tragic, it serves the agendas […]
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How Deep Is Roger Stone’s Act?
Tuesday What are we to make of longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone’s flamboyant behavior following his arrest by Special Counselor Robert Mueller for lying to Congress about his contacts with Wikileaks? I think back to a passage from Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man that I applied to Trump during the campaign but which applies equally […]
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