Dante

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• SOURCE: Jewish Journal
  8/8/2022
  

  What Does Dante Tell Us About the End of the Ukraine War?

  by Tad Daley

  In "On Monarchy" Dante offered the first proposed solution in literature to the problem of war – a world government. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/13/2021
  

  Is this the Moment for Dante's Purgatory?

  by Judith Thurman

  Dante's epic examined the uncharted space of the new Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. New translations make his vision speak to today's mood of unsettlement and uncertainty.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/7/2021
  

  Giving the Women of the Divine Comedy their Due

  by Laura Ingallinella

  One scholar's project is using Wikipedia and her students to recover the historical personhood of Dante's women and elevate them above literary symbols or caricatures. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  10/22/2020
  

  Sending Trump to Hell

  by Ariel Dorfman

  How would the earthly transgressions of Donald Trump fit into the schema of eternal punishment Dante described? 

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• 11/3/19
  

  A History of Why Trump Abandoned the Kurds

  by Ed Simon

  That the Kurds are associated with socialism, anti-fascism, and radical democracy isn’t incidental to Trump’s abandonment of them – it’s the reason why he has.