Like Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts, GOP investigation committees want verdict first, trial afterwards.
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Taking a Break from Politics
Sometimes, like Mr. Hardcastle in “She Stoops to Conquer,” one needs a break from the world’s news.
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Rand Paul’s Misadventures with Poetry
Senator Rand Paul’s often may misapply poetry, but the poems he chooses tell us a lot about Rand Paul.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "If You Forget Me", cultural stereotyping, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Pablo Neruda, Rand Paul, T. S. Eliot Comments closed
Fielding’s Satire Applied to the 1%
Fielding satiric attacks on the cheats of his day could apply to Wall Street financiers and other wealthy Americans who refuse to share.
The Right Wing’s War on Science
Tim O’Brien describes a character for whom facts are formed by sensation. Sounds like today’s right wing.
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Life as a Stage Coach Ride
America is in many ways like the stage coach rides described by Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding.
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A 17th Century Comedy Addressing Rape
The Right Wing’s “war on women” is affecting the way my students read Aphra Behn.
