Tag Archives: To Kill a Mockingbird

Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally

Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.

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Lit that Features the N-Word: What to Do

Now to teach White literature that employs the n-word? Balance with Black literature.

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Atticus: Future Racist or NeverTrumper?

To see how gun violence and white supremacy are linked, look at “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

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Pushing Back against the Purity Police

While not as bad as fascists for censoring reading materials, leftwing purists present their own problems.

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Are Liberal, Conservative Bans Equal?

Are liberal and conservative banning practices equal. Despite some similarities, no.

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Why I Think the Way I Think

I survey my intellectual history, especially the evolution of my thinking about literature’s impact on human behavior.

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When the Court Itself Is on Trial

The GOP may be preparing an impeachment trial that has a predetermined ending–just as the one that appears in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

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Go High When Trump Goes Low?

Tuesday Given that a recession would doom Donald Trump’s already shaky reelection chances, how will he behave if the economy suddenly tanks? On Nicole Wallace’s NBC program last week, the Rev. Al Sharpton said that Democrats must be prepared to deal with a man who has no boundaries and will do anything to win. Of […]

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Why We Fear the Outsider

Spiritual Sunday My friend Sue Schmidt recently alerted me to a homily, by associate rector the Rev. David Henson at Trinity Episcopal Church in Asheville, North Carolina, that highlights a curious moment following one of Jesus’s exorcisms. Rev. Henson draws on To Kill a Mockingbird, Home Alone, and unspecified Harry Potter characters to explain the […]

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