The article was published three days before the Russian Federation began its horrific and unprovoked war on Ukraine.

These words are as true of him as they have ever been of any mortal soul. Joseph R Biden has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Marilynne Robinson: ‘Joe Biden has the weight of the world on his shoulders’Ī month ago on February 21, Marilynne Robinson wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about the circumstances facing President of the United States Joe Biden: Robinson considers the responsibility of police officers, the Constitution, and the United States Senate in “the ritualized character of these mass murders”. We as a people are faced with a problem that weighs on our souls and saps our lives of the most basic and innocent trust and pleasure, and an insuperable obstacle exists somewhere to prevent our acting on it. In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, Marilynne Robinson speaks about the epidemic of gun violence that plagues America, or as she calls it in the opening paragraph, the “Great God Gun”: She continues: “Under the banner of patriotism it hates its nation and people and oversteps all civilized limits in its zeal to bring about fundamental change, whatever the damage.” Marilynne Robinson: ‘The gun-violence plague is evolving, dangerously’ In particular, she warns of the creeping in of fascism, which she calls, “an autoimmune disease.”

Marilynne Robinson had an article in The Guardian last week warning-again-about the dangers posed by the politics and personality of Donald Trump.

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