Some Democrats are waiting for Joe Biden and many Republicans are awaiting the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan. Samuel Beckett foresaw in all in “Waiting for Godot.”
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Waiting for Biden, Paul Ryan, & Reagan
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Boehner’s Monkey and Ellison’s Sambo
Speaker John Boehner may keep a wind-up monkey to express how he feels jerked around by the rightwing Freedom Caucus, which prompted him to resign. There is a similar puppet in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” also signifying emasculation and humiliation.
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GOP Budget Proposes Gruel Cuts
Mean-spirited legislators who seek to cut food stamps and other programs for the poor bear more than a little resemblance to the workhouse authorities in “Oliver Twist.”
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Reflecting on “A Little Learning”
Pope’s “a little learning is a dangerous thing” applies to many of today’s policy debates.
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The Work Ethic of Poor People
The American work ethic is alive at all levels of society, including in the drug trade.
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Why GOP Right Is Beating Up on the Poor
Paul Ryan projects upon the poor as Joseph Conrad did upon Africans.
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Jane Eyre: Poverty Is No Crime
Unemployed Americans are much more like Jane Eyre than hammock-seeking wastrels.
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Milton Would Call Paul Ryan a Wolf
Paul Ryan’s hypocrisy about the poor deserves a Miltonian rebuke.
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Ayn Rand Likes Systems, Not Humans
Ayn Rand’s novels appeal to those who prefer systems over people.
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