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Academic Gossip
Academic Gossip One of the seldom-mentioned pleasures of life in the academy – the House that Plato Built – is academic gossip. It juxtaposes the life of ideas against real-life — whetting one’s appetite for both! I’m about two-thirds of … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAR presidency, above the battle, academic gossip, academic politics, academic religionists, ambivalent relations, anarchist, antinomian, authority on Levinas, biographer's indiscretion, biographer's license, Columbia Seminar on Hermeneutics, Columbia University Religion Department, East Coast academia, Edith Wyschogrod, fatal gossip, Free University in Berlin, gender favoritism, Gnostic Libertine, Hillary Clinton, Jacob Neusner, Jacob Taubes, Jerry Z. Muller's Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes, Jewish Studies, lashon hara, life of ideas, life of ideas v real life, malicious rumors, Michael Wyschogrod, Morton Smith, mutual back scratching, mutual witnessing, New York Jewish intellectuals, nihilist, not getting involved, philosophico-theological terrain, roman à clef, rumor mongering, sexist accusations, sharing life stories, social assassination, social complexity, social death, social interactions, social sanctimony, Taubes anecdotes, the evil tongue, the House that Plato Built, therapeutic guru, visiting professorship
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“The Elevator Pitch”
“The Elevator Pitch” We fly to San Antonio this Thursday, to attend meetings of the American Academy of Religion. Jerry will chair two panels and meet colleagues in connection with the project he founded: Theology Without Walls. Why am I … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAR, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", acquisitions editors, advertising, American Academy of Religion, aporia, Augustine’s Confessions, author, autobiography, belief system, book exhibits, Christian conversion, Christian theology, Clinton's loss, communication, concubine, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, contemporary world views, creativity, creativity v marketing, crying uncontrollably, Dallas Airport, dialectic, Donald Trump, elevator pitch, epiphanies, first autobiography, first person narrative, getting heard, getting noticed, getting published, getting your heart broke, great saint, heartbreak, Hillary Clinton, holding your own, influence, intellectual space, life as story, live and learn, lived philosophy, lived story, living one's beliefs, looking like a winner, losers, marketing, mother nature, networking, opinion shapers, pagan diversions, pagan views, Pauline theology, philosophical experience, philosophical journey, playing the victim, public attention, publishing, put on a happy face, recieved hypotheses, resisting victimization, Roman circus, sales techniques, selling yourself, spiritual journey, St. Augustine, storied lives, tests of experience, the book business, Theology Without Walls, Trump's victory, TWW, vulnerability, well of tears, winners, winners and losers, winning the presidency, woman's spiritual journey, woman's spirituality, women fighting back, women holding their own, writer
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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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