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Will Trump Turn Us into Goodman Brown?

The disillusion of Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown may prove to be America’s in a post-Trump world.

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On Mark McGwire and Fallen Idols

Robert Redford in The Natural      I take a momentary break from Margaret Edson’s W;t to address Mark McGwire’s confession yesterday to having used steroids.  The man whose homerun race with Sammy Sosa “saved baseball” and who then refused to “speak about the past” in a Congressional hearing is finally opening up.  Or at least opening […]

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