Tag Archives: anthony weiner

closing the sacredness gap

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Dave

There is a conjunction, a point of inflection between morality and emotion that translates itself into the political sphere in an almost predictable yet unsettling fashion. Its a zone where we can explain conservative electoral success while at the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged anthony weiner, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Emile Durkheim, John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stephen Harper, tabatha Southey, Thomas Paine | Leave a comment

Dionysian sacrifice

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Dave

Anthony Weiner as a Dionysian sacrifice. Dragged from the fields of Alba onto a sacrificial pyre.As James Frazer in the Golden Bough remarked, was the later pretence of treating the sacrificial victims as if they were human beings was merely … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abraham Maslow, anthony weiner, Caravaggio, christine rosen, christopher lasch, David Riesman, Dr. Sam Vaknin, Erich Fromm, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, John William Waterhouse, mike segar reuters, ross douthat, Tom Wolfe | Leave a comment

femme fatale….kiss of the scorpion?

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Dave

As the Weiner affairs draws to a close, it seems more answers to this odd episode beg more questions.Are best friends ultimately enemies? Where is the legendary Pandarus in all this; that devious individual who facilititates matters for lovers? Were … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged anthony weiner, Barry Chamish, Baruch Spinoza, Ginger Lee, harry benson, Hilary Clinton, huma abedin, huna abedin, john francis bennett, Lee Strahan, Michael Musto, mickey kaus, monica crowley, pandarus, Sappho, Tom Christopher | Leave a comment

forty and four strong winds

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dave

Its been forty-four years since the termination of the Six-Day War; with who started what and did what to whom and when among the most contested piece of history over the most contested piece of land in the history of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged a.m. klein, alan schechner, Amos Oz, anthony weiner, David Rubinger, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, jabotinsky, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Naomi Wolf, Robert Capa, scott copeland, terry fincher, Walter Benjamin, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

the horse has already vaulted

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Dave

The unfettered experience. Its the zipper, stupid. But, does promiscuity necessarily involve forms of immorality? Is there a value in promiscuity if it is located in the pursuit of ideals? .Promiscuity in a Western context seems to have a negative … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged anthony weiner, charles colson, D.H. Lawrence, David Frum, elsworth baker, Hilary Clinton, Jefferson Airplane, Jonathan Kay, Kenneth Rexroth, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, Marie Antoinette, Martin Buber, michael bayles, michael walzer, paul langford, Philip Roth, political pornography, Sir Robert Walpole, Wilhelm Reich, William James | Leave a comment

whats in a name: the name strain

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Art

A look at the Weiner “scandal”…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Poor congressman Weiner. But, what did you expect, anyway? I mean would this whole disaster be as big a deal if his last name was ‘Smith’? I mean, c’mon, let’s be … Continue reading →