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Mitt as a Jane Austen Villain

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2012

Like Henry Crawford in “Mansfield Park,” Mitt Romney is inconstant and will say anything.

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Alyosha Karamazov’s Plea for Straight Talk

By Robin Bates | Published: January 26, 2011

Is it just because I’m an Obama supporter or has political rhetoric reached new levels of inanity? And the rhetoric I have in mind is not that of Tea Party supporters, which is not new. I saw such self-indulgent calls for revolution coming from the left in the early 1970’s. No, I’m thinking of the […]

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