Image: US Constitution
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.
- Debunking the Big Lie That Democrats and Republicans Switched Sides on Race
- Refuting the Big Lie That the “Three/Fifths Compromise” Enshrined Slavery in the U. S. Constitution
- Are Vaccines Safe and Effective?
- Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to the American People”: Revisiting Hyperbolic Propaganda
- The Problem of Race: Junk Science, Faulty Metaphor
- Dr. Johnson’s Etymological Error: From Rime to Rhyme
- The Fugitive-Agrarian Movement in Poetry
- Poetry and Politics under the Influence of Postmodernism
- Literary Devices: Tools of the Commentarian
- How to Read a Poem with Understanding and Appreciation
- The Charlie Kirk Effect
- Misreading the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth
- Six Inaugural Doggerels
- Poetaster Robert Bly: Redefining the Image
- Dr. Maya Angelou: Sacred Cow of Po-Biz
- The Nick Fuentes Effect
- William Butler Yeats’ A Vision
- Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Who Speaks the Poem?
- Robert Bly’s Perversion of Translation
- Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tao Te Ching
- Ursula K. Le Guin’s November 2016 Blog Post: “The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water”
- Politics, Persuasion, and Poetry
- The Lost Art of Poetic Persuasion and the Rise of Propaganda
- Minimalist Gesture and the Aesthetics of Refusal: Fragmentation, Surface, and Postmodern Quietude in Contemporary Poetry
- Anne Frank Is Not a Metaphor: On History, Citizenship, and the Danger of False Analogies
- The Dangers of Trump Derangement Syndrome
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