Revisiting The Jungle Books while watch Trump kowtow to dictators has me examining the Wolf Pack’s claims to “a free people” while kowtowing to Shere Khan.
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Tag Archives: Rudyard Kipling
Kipling on How to Be a Free People
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Mary and Martha: The Better Part?
In Kipling’s “The Sons of Martha,” the speaker channels Martha’s resentment against her sister Mary, who chooses to sit at Jesus’s feet.
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Trump’s Viking-Like Threats
The Weiss law firm has caved to Trump’s threats, in effect (this according to the Bulwark’s Krystol) paying the Dane-geld. This is reference to a Kipling poem.
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Kipling’s Warning to Empires
Kipling’s “Recessional,” written as a warning to the British empire, applies as well to America today.
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Election Anxieties? Read Kipling’s “If”
Milbank uses a Kipling line as he begs readers not to leave the Washington Post. Kipling also provides timely advice for the last week of this election.
The U.S. Ignored Kipling’s Cautionary Tale
Would the USSR and the USA have saved themselves a lot of blood and money in Afghanistan by reading Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” before going in.
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Kipling’s Stellar Advice for Leaders
For a new incoming college president, Kipling’s “If” provides excellent advice.
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What Made Roger Federer Special
Recently retired Roger Federer had a quality possessed by the 17th century Cavalier poets.
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