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At Living Literature: a manifesto on teaching literature that makes the humanities vital. Our guiding light is Supreme Court Justice and Adult Musical Theater Nerd Ketanji Brown Jackson. #booksky #edusky

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How Literature “Lives”: Each Reader Gives It New Life in Their Own Time and Place
A Manifesto About Teaching Literature: If It Wasn’t the Most Important Subject In School, They Wouldn’t Be Willing To Kill Over It
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In October 1843, Dickens and Engels witnessed the same Industrial Revolution horrors in Manchester. CD wrote A Christmas Carol. Engels began collaborating with Karl Marx on works that would eventually become Das Kapital. open.substack.com/pub/livingli...
The Politics of Scrooge: Charles Dickens and Karl Marx Saw the Same Industrial Revolution, But Came to Very Different Conclusions
Dickens created A Christmas Carol. Marx created Das Kapital. Their only point of agreement: Healthcare shouldn’t be tied to your employer.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@mikeduncan.bsky.social Hello Mike Duncan! Just finished the Martian Revolution! Wanted to say thank you for inspiring my Substack livinglitpod.com , which among other things, is an attempt to approach Great Books like you approach Revolutions. A Tale of Two Cities is first up.
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July 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Entertain yourself whole for on the birth of the Political Right and Left, the Founding Father of Conservatives Edmund Burke and the FF of the Left Thomas Paine arguing about the French Revolution. open.substack.com/pub/livingli...
Part 2: The French Revolution's Contribution to Democracy
Today's Concept of the Political Left and the Political Right Literally Came From the First English Debate About the French Revolution
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July 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
At Living Literature: a manifesto on teaching literature that makes the humanities vital. Our guiding light is Supreme Court Justice and Adult Musical Theater Nerd Ketanji Brown Jackson. #booksky #edusky

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How Literature “Lives”: Each Reader Gives It New Life in Their Own Time and Place
A Manifesto About Teaching Literature: If It Wasn’t the Most Important Subject In School, They Wouldn’t Be Willing To Kill Over It
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July 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is about revolutionary moments. A Tale of Two Cities offers the clearest way to think about our times. On Monday, I will walk you through it. If this sounds intriguing, read this and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/livingli...
The “Noisiest Authorities”: Charles Dickens Explains How It Can Be Both the Best and Worst of Times in the Age of Trump
The World’s First Global Media Star Understood the Power of Attention
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January 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social Your conversation inspired this longform post on Charles Dickens and understanding the first par. of A Tale of Two Cities in the age of Trump. Dickens was the world's first global attention merchant! open.substack.com/pub/livingli...
The “Noisiest Authorities”: Charles Dickens Explains How It Can Be Both the Best and Worst of Times in the Age of Trump
The World’s First Global Media Star Understood the Power of Attention
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January 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My podcast Living Literature deep-dives into Stave I of A Christmas Carol. I tour you through Scrooge's London like it's Purgatory We do a deep reading of Marley's house to discover that, in Marley, Scrooge found a Rich Widower to keep him out of the debtors' prisons.
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December 23, 2024 at 10:04 PM
A Christmas Carol adaptations diminish Belle. On the page, she's bold, risking her life to dump Ebenezer. Belle bets on herself and wins. Hers is a tragic love story defined by the rise of the petite bourgeoisie in Late Industrial Revolution England.
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Belle Dumped Scrooge Because She Held Up Her End of the Bargain and He Didn’t.
Scrooge Wasn’t Greedy: He Feared the Debtors Prisons. A Tragic Love Story Defined By the Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie in Late Industrial Revolution England
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December 23, 2024 at 9:58 PM
In October 1843, Friedrich Engels and Charles Dickens were both in Manchester to witness the worst Industrial Revolution squalor. Engels went on to collaborate with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto. Dickens wrote something more seditious: A Christmas Carol.
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The Politics of Scrooge: Charles Dickens and Karl Marx Saw the Same Industrial Revolution and Came to Very Different Conclusions
A Christmas Carol Is Much More Than a Parable About Why Your Ability to Pay For Health Care Shouldn’t Be Tied to Your Employer
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December 23, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Later this week, I will publish an episode covering Stave I of A Christmas Carol. Two years ago, my family went to the Morgan Library in New York City, where Dickens' handwritten manuscript of A Christmas Carol is on display. I was very interested to see which page would be displayed
December 2, 2024 at 1:52 AM
In September, a federal judge issued a cease and desist to the Trump Campaign from using "Electric Avenue." In my first "Art In Its Place" essay, I deep-dived into the historical context of Eddy Grant's hit. Let's go to the south London borough of Brixton. open.substack.com/pub/livingli...
Why They Were Out in the Streets of “Electric Avenue”: The Brixton Riots and the Ongoing Persecution of the Windrush Generation
Trump Might Have Won the Election, But Eddy Grant Remains Undefeated
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November 22, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Living Literature tackles an Atlantic article making the rounds, "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books." Long story short: Twenty-five years of the standardized testing regime has emphasized "passages," so we don't really teach reading anymore.
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“The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books”, Part 1
How Standardized Test-Driven Curriculum Degraded America's Capacity to Tackle Our Most Pressing Issues
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November 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Hello Blue Sky! I am a former literature teacher and lawyer, launching a podcast and newsletter about teaching humanities called "Living Literature." Season 1 will step you through Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol, episodes dropping weekly through Christmas.

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Podcast illuminating great books, chapter by chapter. S.1: A Christmas Carol.
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November 20, 2024 at 6:59 PM