Trump is sounding increasingly like Carroll’s Queen of Hearts, ordering executions when often fail to materialize.
Tag Archives: Stephen Colbert
Comics Play Cheshire Cat to DJT’s Queen
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Twain: Autocrats Fear Being Laughed At
In “Mysterious Stranger,” Twain calls upon us to laugh at autocrats—even when it gets us in trouble, as it did Late Night’s Stephen Colbert.
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Awaiting Godot in the Age of Cable News
Stephen Colbert realizes that only Beckett’s theater of the absurd will do justice to breathless media coverage of the latest crisis (whatever it is).
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#CancelColbert, #CancelMarkTwain
Carl Rosin, a high school teacher I admire tremendously, shares below how he will be using a recent public dust-up about a Stephen Colbert tweet to help his students understand the power and danger of satire, especially as it applies to Huckleberry Finn. I love the tweet that Carl imagines could have emerged out of Huck […]
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