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An Xmas Story about Political Polarization

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2022

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a Christmas story in 1848 about rival political factions learning to get along. One can dream.

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Ostriker: Still Carried Away by America

By Robin Bates | Published: October 25, 2020

Ostriker’s “America the Beautiful” acknowledges two Americas but speaks to the ideal of indivisibility, as expressed in the “Pledge of Allegiance.”

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