Tag Archives: Maureen Dowd

Trump as Captain Queeg

By Robin Bates | Published: January 29, 2024

Donald Trump as Captain Queeg and the captain in Eggers’s novel “Captain and the Glory.”

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Politics and Beowulf Wish Fulfillment

By Robin Bates | Published: May 2, 2013

People who think a modern Beowulf can come in and fix our political problems are delusional.

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Mr. Obama vs. Washington Reality

By Robin Bates | Published: August 5, 2011

Did President Obama get rolled in the recent budget negotiations? The possibility that he did brings to mind a film about another naive politician, Frank Capra’s 1939 “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

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Lies Reveal Who We Wish We Were

By Robin Bates | Published: May 25, 2010

Pierre Corneille        I’ve been thinking about lying recently.  One reason is because I recently saw a David Ives adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th century comedy The Liar at the Washington Shakespeare Theater.  Another is because of Maureen Dowd’s interesting NYT column Sunday about politicians who lie when they don’t have to. Dowd is writing about Richard […]

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