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Mary Townsend on "the Molière Option.”

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Mary Townsend
May 02, 2025
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A hundred days into the second Trump term, the #Resistance movement, which was born during the first Trump administration, seems dead and buried. Its moralistic rhetoric and cringe aesthetics — brilliantly lampooned by the Onion’s “ResistanceHole” — are largely to blame for its demise.

Today, Mary Townsend proposes a better way to resist tyranny: by making fun of it…

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Mary Townsend is an associate professor of philosophy at St. John's University, Queens, NY.
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