“Wicked” (the movie) shows us Trump-type scapegoating while “Wicked” (the book) also provides insight into how and why people are drawn to his sadism.
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Wicked, a Parable for Our Time
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René Girard on What Lit Can Teach Us
Philosophical anthropologist René Girard owes his ideas about mimetic desire to literature.
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