Are we still fighting the Civil War?
[Added 2-26-2011: I have finished reading David Blight's book, quoted below, and now have a better idea of the obsessions of Blight and his academic cohort at Yale and Harvard. They are hostile to...
View ArticleMelville, Orwell, Doublethink
This is my second major Orwell blog: see http://clarespark.com/2012/10/15/orwell-power-and-the-totalitarian-state/ for the first one. During my recent forays into the changing interpretations of...
View ArticlePhilip Roth, The Following, and Identification with the Aggressor
I raised this issue after the third season of HBO’s In Treatment, (See http://clarespark.com/2010/12/12/hbo%e2%80%99s-in-treatment-and-boardwalk-empire/, and continued my theme in...
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