The political high point of my life has been Obama’s 2008 election. I began blogging the following spring, and many of my posts have been about racial resentment.
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Tag Archives: Thomas Dixon
We Need Disturbing Lit If We Are to Grow
If we want literature to improve our lives, often we must read–and teach–works that unsettle.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bluest Eye, C.S. Lewis, cancel culture, Cat's Eye, censorship, Clansman, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Light in August, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lottery, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner Comments closed
Can Lit Make the Rich More Empathetic?
With growing income disparity comes a decline in empathy. Literature can help rebuild our compassion.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Clansmen, empathy, Honoré de Balzac, Income inequality, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Pinker, violence Comments closed
Compassion for the Poor Is Not Enough
Speaking with the head as well as the heart against oppressive class conditions is necessary in novels as in public policy.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged austerity budgeting, Charles Chestnutt, Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Clansman, Economics, Paul Ryan, recession Comments closed