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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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