Seinfeld has complained that wokeness is ruining comedy. Similar complains show up in Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones.”
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On Comedy, Seinfeld, and Tom Jones
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A Fable about Cancel Culture
While the left doesn’t practice cancel culture to the degree that the right does, it is still a concern, as a recent open letter to “Harper’s” makes clear. So does this Scott Bates fable.
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For Roth, People Were Always Complex
The late Philip Roth’s novel “Human Stain” reenforced for me that humans are always more complex than ideological caricatures of them.
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Politically Incorrect Okay for Hemingway?
If Bill Gorton, a positive figure in “The Sun Also Rises,” is politically incorrect, does that mean that Donald Trump is correct in his attacks on PC? Award-winning high school teacher Carl Rosin tackles the issues by contrasting Gorton and Trump.
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Is Poetry in Decline? Nope
A New York Times columnist laments the decline of poetry. Here’s why he’s full of it.
