Have you seen the “Grinch prank” video trend? Bad parenting, yes. But also a nod to the conflicts, ancient and modern, embedded in Christmas. 
Contrary to what Bill O’Reilly would tell you, there has never been a “war on Christmas.” Rather, Christmas itself has always been a battleground over love, dignity, and resources. What we’re really fighting over is who gets care in systems built on scarcity and extraction.
<ul>
 <li>Vignette 1: The Original Creche</li>
 <li>Vignette 2: Krampus</li>
 <li>Vignette 3: Dickens, Chekhov, and Andersen</li>
 <li>Vignette 4: The Christmas Truce, 1914</li>
 <li>Vignette 5: Dr. Seuss and the Grinch</li>
</ul>
Show Notes
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Little Match Girl. Copenhagen, 1845.<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10623">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10623</a>
Boyle, James. “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain.” Law and Contemporary Problems 66, no. 1–2 (2003).<a href="https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol66/iss1/2/">https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol66/iss1/2/</a>
Chekhov, Anton. “Vanka.” 1892.<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13418">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13418</a>
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46</a>
Imperial War Museums. “Christmas Truce, 1914.”<a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/christmas-truce-1914">https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/christmas-truce-1914</a>
Imperial War Museums. “Letter Describing the Christmas Truce.”<a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030000503">https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030000503</a>
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. The Principles of Socialism and the War of 1914–1915. Marxists Internet Archive.<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/princip/">https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/princip/</a>
McCoy, Michael. “What Is Tinsel Made Of? (and How It Changed Over the Years).” Chemical & Engineering News, December 15, 2014.<a href="https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i50/Tinsel-Made.html">https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i50/Tinsel-Made.html</a>
Mitterauer, Michael. “Peasant and Non-Peasant Forms of Family Organization in Relation to the Physical Environment and the Local Economy.” Journal of Family History 2, no. 2 (1977).<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/036319907700200203">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/036319907700200203</a>
Nel, Philip. Dr. Seuss: American Icon. New York: Continuum, 2004.<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Yt4QAQAAIAAJ">https://books.google.com/books?id=Yt4QAQAAIAAJ</a>
Nissenbaum, Stephen. The Battle for Christmas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/171502/the-battle-for-christmas-by-stephen-nissenbaum/">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/171502/the-battle-for-christmas-by-stephen-nissenbaum/</a>
Restad, Penne L. Christmas in America: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/christmas-in-america-9780195043659">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/christmas-in-america-9780195043659</a>
Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691018448/consumer-rites">https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691018448/consumer-rites</a>
Science History Institute. “History and Future of Plastics.”<a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/topics/plastics">https://www.sciencehistory.org/topics/plastics</a>
Smithsonian Magazine. “The Origin of Krampus, Europe’s Evil Twist on Santa.” December 4, 2015.<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-origin-of-krampus-europes-evil-twist-on-santa-180957438/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-origin-of-krampus-europes-evil-twist-on-santa-180957438/</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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