Tag Archives: Tom Nichols

Conquering the Darkness Within

By Robin Bates | Published: February 22, 2024

Pratchett’s novel “Thud!” is a plea to find inner strength rather than yielding to blind rage.

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Before Vaccines: Home Burials

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2023

Poems like Frost’s “Home Burial” can bring home the reality of a child’s death.

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Warning to Fans of Authoritarianism

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2023

Applying “The Frogs Who Wished for a King” to the U.S., Biden is King Log and Trump King Crane.

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Nikki Haley, Straight Out of 1984

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2023

Nikki Haley, who has just announced her presidential ambitions, resembles Tom Parsons in “1984”–which is to say, a soulless apparatchik.

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