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What To Make of a Diminished Biles

By Robin Bates | Published: August 6, 2021

For Simone Biles’s fall from Olympic heights, two Robert Frost poems and Le Guin’s Earthsea Tetralogy bring some needed perspective.

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Soccer, an Un-American Sport?

By Robin Bates | Published: June 19, 2010

Landon Donovan, man of the match        Sports Saturday Years ago I read (I think in The Washington Post) a humorous article about why Americans are not great soccer enthusiasts.  The article said that Americans have problems with a game where a two-goal lead is practically insurmountable. Robert Frost would have something to say about that. […]

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You, Sir, Are No Jay Gatsby

By Robin Bates | Published: October 16, 2009

  Everyone has something to say about Barack Obama, who has been the subject of non-stop scrutiny since last year’s Democratic primaries.  It therefore is not surprising that some would turn to literature to understand what he means.  Including, in recent weeks,  two New York Times columnists. Stanley Fish, the subject of three posts this […]

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