In Wycherley’s “Country Wife,” the entire society grasps at an implausible story to sustain its self deception. Sounds like the GOP and supply side economics.
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On Supply Side and Self Deception
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Bad GOP Messaging? Try Doublethink
Some recent GOP attempts to soften their message while retaining their policies remind one of Orwellian doublespeak.
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Hagel: “No Glory, Only Suffering in War”
Some of Chuck Hagel’s statements about war are reminiscent of the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen.
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The American South, Trapped in the Past
The reactionary South is like Emily in Faulkner’s story, clinging to a dead love while the world moves on.
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Only Comic Satire Can Do NRA Justice
It takes a Joseph Heller or a Jonathan Swift to capture the craziness of the NRA.
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Right Wing, Incompetent Hostage Takers?
The GOP holding the debt ceiling hostage could end just as badly as the kidnapping plot in “Ransom of Red Chief.”
The Fiscal Cliff as Kubla Khan’s Chasm
Our looming fiscal cliff can be imagined as Coleridge’s “deep romantic chasm” in “Kubla Khan.”
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