Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016
What kind of change do I want, and what does fighting for it look like, today?
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Posts Tagged: Jeb Bush
Killing Baby Hitler
Rebecca Onion writes for Aeon about taking the “what ifs” of history very seriously: In October 2015, when asked if, given the chance, he would kill the infant Hitler, the US presidential candidate Jeb Bush retorted with an enthusiastic: ‘Hell yeah, I would!’ Laughter was a first response: what a ridiculous question! And didn’t Bush […]
...moreJeb Bush in English Class
When the Huffington Post revealed that Jeb Bush misinterpreted The Scarlet Letter in order to justify the public shaming of unwed mothers, the Internet imagined how he would interpret other classic works of literature.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Midnight in the Century
…today’s poetry apologists for the Iraq war just keep repeating their intelligence error odes. Wouldn’t it be better, however, if they would address the horror of the failed effort in Iraq?
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