Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American writer. His books have been published in over 40 languages and his plays staged in more than one hundred countries. He is the author of "Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile" His new novel is "Darwin’s Ghosts."
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Views Monday, February 15, 2021 "Libertad y Justicia Para Todos": How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times " Una nación bajo Diós, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos . When Jennifer López shouted out that last line of the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish during Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony, like so many Spanish-speaking Latinos in the United States I felt a sense of pride, a sense of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 22, 2020 Sending Trump to Hell For some time now, I’ve wanted to send Donald Trump to Hell. I mean this literally, not as a figure of speech. I want him to inhabit the palpable, sensory Hell that religions have long conjured up with scenes of sulfur, damnation, and screams of perpetual pain from those who once caused grievous... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Human Zoos in the Age of Trump When Donald Trump recently accused “illegal immigrants” of wanting to “pour into and infest our country,” there was an immediate outcry. After all, that verb, infest, had been used by the Nazis as a way of dehumanizing Jews and communists as rats, vermin, or insects that needed to be eradicated... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 14, 2017 How to Read Donald Trump The organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville last month knew just what they were doing when they decided to carry torches on their nocturnal march to protest the dethroning of a statue of Robert E. Lee. That brandishing of fire in the night was meant to evoke memories of... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 17, 2016 Now, America, You Know How Chileans Felt DURHAM, N.C. — It is familiar, the outrage and alarm that many Americans are feeling at reports that Russia, according to a secret intelligence assessment, interfered in the United States election to help Donald J. Trump become president. I have been through this before, overwhelmed by a similar... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 17, 2014 How to Forgive Your Torturer What a way to celebrate Torture Awareness Month! According to an Amnesty International Poll released in May, 45% of Americans believe that torture is “sometimes necessary and acceptable” in order to “gain information that may protect the public.” Twenty-nine percent of Britons “strongly or somewhat... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 27, 2013 A Time for Creative Suffering: Martin Luther King’s Words in a Surveillance World So much has changed since that hot day in August 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A black family lives in the White House and official segregation is a thing of the past. Read more |
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Views Monday, October 10, 2011 Salvador Allende Has Words for Barack Obama from the Other Side of Death For the last decade, I have been haunted by voices from the other side of death. In this way, back in 2003 I transcribed the words of Pablo Picasso after a tapestry version of his famed painting Guernica at the entrance to the Security Council was covered over at the U.N. Read more |