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The Lot of Women
A line comes to mind that I first heard spoken in the alabaster French of the Comédie-Française, many years ago in the Paris of my youth: Do you not pity the lot of women? Le sort des femmes … the … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic feminism, academic merit, academic retaliation, ambivalence of feminists, Andrea Dworkin’s Heartbreak, believing the woman, Bill Clinton, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Catherine Chalier, Clinton accused of rape, Comédie-Française, distinctions can get blurry, Emmanuel Levinas, faculty feminist group, feminism and changes in the law, feminism in academe, feminist bloc, feminist distinctions can get blurry, feminist friends, feminist hypocrisy, feminist idealism, feminist politics, feminist real life, feminists betraying women, fired for voting wrong, firing not merit-based, French feminists, Gertrude Ezorsky, in-house academic politics, independent investigation, Juanita Broaddrick, le sort des femmes, marital rape, merit-based firing, NY Times letter, Parisian feminists, Philosophy Department of City University’s Brooklyn College, Phyllis Chesler, political loyalty and feminism, political reprisals in academe, politics of feminism, rape and feminism, rape in marriage, sexual harassment, the destiny of women, the lot of women, victims of feminism, victims of sexism, wife battering, women controlling women, women in academia, women’s bloc
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The Lot of Women
A line comes to mind that I first heard spoken in the alabaster French of the Comédie-Française, many years ago in the Paris of my youth: Do you not pity the lot of women? Le sort des femmes … the … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic feminism, academic merit, academic retaliation, ambivalence of feminists, Andrea Dworkin’s Heartbreak, believing the woman, Bill Clinton, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Catherine Chalier, Clinton accused of rape, Comédie-Française, distinctions can get blurry, Emmanuel Levinas, faculty feminist group, feminism and changes in the law, feminism in academe, feminist bloc, feminist distinctions can get blurry, feminist friends, feminist hypocrisy, feminist idealism, feminist politics, feminist real life, feminists betraying women, fired for voting wrong, firing not merit-based, French feminists, Gertrude Ezorsky, in-house academic politics, independent investigation, Juanita Broaddrick, le sort des femmes, marital rape, merit-based firing, NY Times letter, Parisian feminists, Philosophy Department of City University’s Brooklyn College, Phyllis Chesler, political loyalty and feminism, political reprisals in academe, politics of feminism, rape and feminism, rape in marriage, sexual harassment, the destiny of women, the lot of women, victims of feminism, victims of sexism, wife battering, women controlling women, women in academia, women’s bloc
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Battered, Bruised … but Unbowed?
Battered, Bruised … but Unbowed? Last week, reflecting on my deep reluctance to do anything that would promote my newly-released book, A Good Look at Evil, second edition, I determined that the real barrier isn’t that I believe I have … Continue reading →
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Tagged A. G. Eric Scheniderman, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", abusive men, abusive relationships, Amazon’s “Look Inside”, amazon’s books, assertiveness training, bad guys winning, being outnumbered, betrayal of trust, Bible study, Bill Clinton, book endorsements, book promotion, chariots of fire, cheering the sick, combatting adversity, compliance with abuser, coping with setbacks, decent manhood, defending one’s work, demands of nature, distance healing, electronic preview, embezzler, evil diagnosed, evil portrayed, female receptivity, female vulnerability, feminine pliancy, feminine sensitivity, femininity as social construct, feminism’s counsels, fictional stories, getting evil’s number, giving up the fight, hype, II Kings 6:15-17, internalizing real problems, jacket blurbs, Juanita Broaddrick, king of Syria, life as story, lifemanship, mirror of evil, modern cynicism, modernity’s worldview, mug shot, nameless adversary, narrative view, nature v nurture, neuropathy treatment, nineteenth century novels, nonfiction narrative, not giving up, Pentateuch, persistence as key, persistence as victory, prayer guidance, prayer-based healing, predator in disguise, projection, protecting one’s book, publication date, puffery, rabbinic duties, satanic attack, sexual predator, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, sting operation, stress fracture, string of accidents, taking oneself seriously, the sleeping dogs, thwarted story, Torah Study, true stories, unexpected guest, Victorian novels, woman's nature, women’s disguising armor, yin and yang
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“Chivalry”
Chivalry John Adams, who was the second president of the United States, wrote: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” At present, the people of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged American presidency, animal nature, animality, Bill Clinton, Broaddrick NBC interview, careerism, chivalric words, chivalry of men, citizen's virtue, denial, desire and motivation, disgust, Donald Trump, en proie à l’espèce, erasing desire, Feminism, feminists, future of the republic, gross language, grossness, harm of rape, Hillary Clinton, honor of women, hotel room advances, ideality, Ideologues, ignoble words, John Adams, Juanita Broaddrick, locker room banter, loss of desire, lying, memory blackouts, moral evasion, moral freedom, NBC interview with Lisa Myers, partisanship, political debates, political expertise, pornography, presidential race 2016, protective distance, rape, rapist, RealClearPolitics, seducer, silencing victims, Simone de Beauvoir, sympathy with women, the weaker sex, trauma recollected, unwanted advances, violent rape, virtue and republican government, vulgarity, will to live, words that violate
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End Time
End Time I’ve been reading a voluminous book by historian Richard Landes called Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of Millenial Experience. It’s exhaustive. Whew! With contagious verve and overwhelming scholarly exactitude, the book goes into the many ways in which … Continue reading →
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Tagged anti-semitism, anti-semitism in U.S. politics, apocalypse, Bar Kochba, Bill Clinton, blaming the victim, Broaddrick NBC interview, broken pledges, broken promises, campaign promises, charisma in politics, choice of evils, Clinton Impeachment, coarseness toward women, courtesy, credible accusations, criminal rape, crudeness, discourtesy, Donald Trump, end of history, end time, end time syndrome, Enforcers, false messiahs, female vulnerability, gentlemanliness, God's world, God’s work, hardwired beliefs, Hillary Clinton, historians, History, Holocaust Advocacy, Holocaust Denial, Jewish time, Juanita Broaddrick, libertine Gnosticism, lies in politics, Lisa Myers, messiah figures, millennial historians, millennium, new dispensation, normal time, normality, political choices, political competitors, political race, political reprisal, politicians, presidential candidates, presidential race 2016, protocol, public spirit, Richard Landes, Richard Landes’s Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of Millenial Experience, Russia’s foreign aims, Sabbatai Zvi, sanity, sexual predator, threats, Trump’s foreign policy, Trump’s temperament, truth in politics, Vladimir Putin, womanhood
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