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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Midnight in the Century
It was the Hamlet on the Hudson, the late Mario Cuomo, who famously said, “you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose.” When he said poetry, I’m sure he was being figurative and simply meant...
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When the Huffington Post revealed that Jeb Bush misinterpreted The Scarlet Letter in order to justify the public shaming of unwed mothers, the Internet imagined how he would interpret other classic...
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Rebecca Onion writes for Aeon about taking the “what ifs” of history very seriously:In October 2015, when asked if, given the chance, he would kill the infant Hitler, the US presidential candidate Jeb...
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Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016
It is November 1996, and Bill Clinton has just been re-elected as the President of the United States. I am eleven years old. I’m in the back seat of the car with my brother beside me, and my parents up...
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