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Work Makes Us Soar, Money Not So Much

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2016

In her novel “Leaps fo Faith,” Rachel Kranz helps us understand what work means to us. Citing Marx, she notes that work helps us express our essence but that, when it becomes part of the cash nexus, we find ourselves alienated from it.

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Literature as a Basis for Social Change

By Robin Bates | Published: October 20, 2015

Italian activist Antonio Gramsci believed that the common people have an unconscious philosophy that, if harnessed, can become the basis for social change. I argue that they also have unconscious literary taste that can also be harnessed.

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GOP Whites Splitting? Huck Finn Says No

By Robin Bates | Published: December 3, 2013

If “Huck Finn” has predictive value, the class tensions within today’s GOP will be papered over by racism.

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