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battle never done
John Lukacs once made the rather pessimistic observation that had Hitler succeeded in subduing England and conquering the Island, the English would have acted with the same dynamic of complicity and collaboration with the victors that the French had exhibited. … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Britain, Edmund Burke, Franz von Papen, Jean-Marie Le Pen, John Lukacs, Lord Halifax, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pat Buchanan, Peter Fleming, robert brasillach, Thomas Carlyle, Will Hay actor, Winston Churchill
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fat chance: rooting for the longshot
Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading
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Tagged Damon Runyan, edmund bergler, Edmund Burke, fred herzog photography, gambling economics, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, marx brothers at the races, Paul Newman, Paul Samuelson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rosel zech, Slavoj Zizek, thorsten brinkmann, Walter Benjamin
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gambling : putting a wager on fate
…The gambler becomes the rules by abiding by them, by allowing his actions to be transformed by the rules as he observes them, by allowing the structure to direct the flows of his movements….Is chance a divine game played cosmically … Continue reading
closing the sacredness gap
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
reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who
The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960’s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Penn, Bruce Eisner, California Nature Boys, Country Joe and the Fish, Country Joe MacDonald, Edmund Burke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Irving Kristol, John Cippolina, John Richter, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roger Kimball, Samuel Beckett, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, William Burroughs
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CLERGY BURNOUT: THE AESTHETICS OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Believers and Deceivers. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, … Continue reading
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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”
Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender. Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Anna Clark, Beaumarchais, Chevalier d'Eon, Comte de Broglie, Debbie Foulkes, Denis Diderot, Edmund Burke, Evelyne Lever, Fernand Jousselin, Gary Kates, Havelock Ellis, Horace Walpole, Ian Herbert, James Boswell, Jean-Baptiste Lilly, Joel Richard Paul, John Coulthart, John Wilkes, Jonathan Conlin, Judith Mackrell, Lou Reed, madame de Pompadour, Marie Antionette, Mark Brownell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maurice Lever, Moliere, Octave Homberg, Paul Kuritz, Philip Core, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Reversal of Alliances, Robert Lepage, Russell Maliphant, Seven Years War, Simon Burrows, Tow Ubukata, Voltaire, William J. Thomas
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LETTING YOUR HAIR DOWN WITH THE “HYENA IN PETTICOATS”
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 ) was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind’s present circumstances and ultimate perfection. She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Dworkin, Betty Friedan, Boudicca, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christine Battersby, Cindy Chandler, Claire Clairmont, Cynthia Freeland, Edmund Burke, Eithne Johnson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman, Emma Willard, Eric Schaefer, Gail Dines, Gilbert Imlay, Gloria Allred, Greta Garbo, Henry Fuseli, Janet Todd, Jason Burke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, John Cartwright, Joseph Johnson, Kim Airs, Laura Mulvey, Linda Nochlin, Lord Byron, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Lippard, Lyndall Gordon, Mary Shelley, Megan Amberger, Nancy Burns, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Richard Price, Robespierre, Rush Limbaugh, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B. Anthony, Susie Bright, Tom Hazlitt, Toni Bentley, William Godwin
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