Tag Archives: politics

Budget Arm Wrestling with the GOP

By Robin Bates | Published: December 3, 2012

Obama appears to be playing Beowulf-hard rather than Wealtheow-soft in budget negotiations with the GOP.

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By Robin Bates | Published: November 16, 2012

Narrative has become more important than ever in political campaigns.

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By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2012

Lit to caution election night winners and bolster election night losers.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2012

Political campaigns have come to be seen as competing narratives, providing those who understand fiction with special insight.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 29, 2012

Mitt Romney would find a kindred soul in Joseph Heller’s cynical entrepreneur Milo Minderbinder.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 12, 2012

In last night’s, Joe Biden found himself up against a modern-day version of Dickens’ Bounderby from “Hard Times.”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2012

Like Henry Crawford in “Mansfield Park,” Mitt Romney is inconstant and will say anything.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 9, 2012

Is Obama in a funk over his responsibilities as a war president? If so, “Beowulf” has answers.

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By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2012

Mitt Romney’s “tangled web” entraps Obama and recalls Sir Walter Scott.