As Trump and MAGA call for mass deportations, Shakespeare asks us to see the world from the immigrants’ point of view.
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Shakespeare Stood Up for Immigrants
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Only What Is Human Can Be Foreign
Szymborska’s beautiful poem “Psalm” provides the perspective we all need on immigrants at the border.
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Trump as a Haruki Murakami Villain
Donald Trump has an uncanny resemblance to the villain Noboru Wataya in Haruki Murakami’s masterful novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” (1998). Both have a similar hollowness and both have the ability to separate people from the higher instincts and put them in thrall to their lower ones.
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