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Image:  US Constitution

Essays: On Political, Social, Literary, & Other Issues

This room in my literary home houses links to essays addressing issues in literary studies, politics, social/cultural movements, science, or medicine and health care, some of which may be controversial or widely misunderstood either currently or historically.

1. Debunking the Big Lie That Democrats and Republicans Switched Sides on Race
2. Refuting the Big Lie That the “Three/Fifths Compromise” Enshrined Slavery in the U. S. Constitution
3. Are Vaccines Safe and Effective?
4. Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to the American People”: Revisiting Hyperbolic Propaganda
5. The Problem of Race:  Junk Science, Faulty Metaphor
6. Dr. Johnson’s Etymological Error: From Rime to Rhyme
7. The Fugitive-Agrarian Movement in Poetry
8. Poetry and Politics under the Influence of Postmodernism
9. Literary Devices: Tools of the Commentarian
10. How to Read a Poem with Understanding and Appreciation
11. The Charlie Kirk Effect
12. Misreading the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth
13. Six Inaugural Doggerels
14. Poetaster Robert Bly: Redefining the Image
15. Dr. Maya Angelou: Sacred Cow of Po-Biz
16. What Is a “Poetaster”?
17. William Butler Yeats’ A Vision
18. Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
19. Who Speaks the Poem?
20. Robert Bly’s Perversion of Translation
21. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tao Te Ching
22. Ursula K. Le Guin’s November 2016 Blog Post: “The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water”
23. Politics, Persuasion, and Poetry
24. The Lost Art of Poetic Persuasion and the Rise of Propaganda
25. Minimalist Gesture and the Aesthetics of Refusal:  Fragmentation, Surface, and Postmodern Quietude in Contemporary Poetry
26. Anne Frank Is Not a Metaphor: On History, Citizenship, and the Danger of False Analogies
27. The Dangers of Trump Derangement Syndrome
28. Ludwig von Mises: Influential Critic of Marxism
29. Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Problem of Judgment
30. David Solway on Climate Change
31. Literary Studies: Elucidating Human Experience
32. What Grok Said about AI
33. Human Classification Is Tricky
34. Israel’s Contributions to the World
35. The Art of Living Life as Poet
36. The Ern Malley Hoax
37. The Sovereign-Citizen Movement: A Dangerous Fantasy
38. Liza Libes on Postmodern Literary Studies