Tag Archives: Alexis de Tocqueville

hidden, unknowable and unthinkable

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Dave

Richard Francis Burton, born in the nineteenth-century, rightfully belonged to the Renaissance, and should have been contemporary with Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake. Instead he was trapped in the century least capable of appraising his talents, confined and … Continue reading →

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the loser

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dave

M. Licinius Crassus. Loser. This Roman general took fifty thousand disciplined, well-equipped troops, marched them into an Oriental desert, and then made every military mistake possible. The result was unprecedented disaster. Maybe a case of rising to the level of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Anthony Mann, charles laughton, General Westmoreland, King Artavasdes, King Artavasdes Armenia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Plutarch, Pompey, Roman battle at Carrhae, Spartacus, Spartacus t.v. series, Stanley Kubrick Spartacus, Surena Parthians, The Parthians, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole Hudson River School, victory of Sulla | Leave a comment

when the saints come marching in

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dave

Friends of poverty. Suffering as a gift of god? The context for Hitchens attack on Mother Teresa was certainly sensational, down the sexual innuendo of the title Missionary Position. But, the broader context of Mother Teresa and the role charity … Continue reading →

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new forms for old feeling

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Dave

Profit as evidence of god’s approval for the sacred project of America buffeting the shock between business and piety, lucre and morality. The Emersonian chosen people, selected, picked for a special destiny. Many are called, few are frozen; a form … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Constance Rourke, David Brooks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, herman cain, Herman Melville, Jean Baudrillard, justin townes earle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud, Steve Earle | Leave a comment

the un-people: throwing the off switch

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Dave

Pull the legs out from under the wage system. The Wobblies. The I.W.W. It was an America in which those who did protest were often locked out, replaced by scabs, and prevented from picketing by injunction and by naked force. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged a.ashbolt, Alexander Berkman, Alexis de Tocqueville, daniel de Leon, deborah shaffer, elizabeth gurley flynn, Emma Goldman, eugene v. debs, i.w.w., joseph ettor, max eastman, samuel gompers, Sigmund Freud, The Wobblies, Werner Sombart, william d. haywood | Leave a comment

semi-detached from the lost generation

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Dave

“Among democratic nations each generation is a new people.” —Alexis de Tocqueville. They were the children of the lost generation.The “Lost Generation” moniker was invented by Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway; it became popular during the age wars … Continue reading →

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soliloquy: photos of american monologues

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Dave

Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation. Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alec soth, alexander Farkas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Damien Hirst, Edgar Allen Poe, ellis washington, emily dickinson, Greil Marcus, Henry James, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, michael a. ledeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, neal riemer, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

Doin’ the right thing. the white stuff

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Dave

Simple. A simple government.Common Sense. “Family Values” Its a common refrain that wraps up a political agenda into a wider context of right wing reactionary politics in which the apparent simplicity of the message is not detachable from a politics … Continue reading →