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Ridicule
Ridicule It seems almost an age since the Republican Primary Debates, but there is an aspect of that contest that still comes to my mind. Part of Donald Trump’s victory was due to his success in ridiculing his opponents. He … Continue reading →
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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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“Rudeness”
“Rudeness” A few years ago I was riding from terminal to terminal on an airport bus in Texas. By the time I climbed on board, the bus had standing room only. I was hanging on a strap, keeping my hand … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic dinner parties, action theory, ad hominem argument, Aristotle, Aristotle’s Ethics, Australian philosophical life, baiting, belief systems, Bullying, Cambridge University, chivalry, civil life, collegial relations, collegiality, conviviality, courtesy, desperate straits, dinner parties, effrontery, faculty wives, false consciousness, frustrated chivalry, gallantry, gentlemen, governing charters, hegemony, Hobbes’s Leviathan, human history, idealization of men, idealization of women, impertinence, incivility, ingratitude, insults, Jew-baiting, kid stuff, ladies, ladies first, launching a movement, life and death struggle, macro-history, Male Power, male supremacy, manners, manners and rules, masked insults, membership dues, membership roster, minority group, minority status, name-calling, new political movement, number one, obscenity, Oppression, oppressive system, ostracism, outspokenness, patriarchy, Peterhouse, philosophers from Peterhouse, philosophical abstractions, Political Movements, politics of the future, power smiles, powerlessness, precision in action, pretense, privacy, private sensibilities, rape, rape threat, rule of law, rule of the stronger, rules, sensitivity, ship christening, social complexity, social courage, social dilemmas, social empowerment, social ordeals, social patterns, social reciprocity, social reprisals, state of nature, Texans, the Other, the right act, toothy smiles, tyranny of the majority, U.K., unfair advantage, virtues, vulgarity, war of all against all, women & children first
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