Tag Archives: Emanuel Leutze

Day-O : cut him some slack?

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dave

There was a great deal of controversy over jazz and swing music in Nazi Germany, with a public antipathy towards it, yet for the higher ups the debate was more nuanced. To even conceive of Goebbels as a jazz afficionnado … Continue reading →

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rights set loose in the wild

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Dave

Is there an ambiguity, a gap between formal freedom , formal democracy as practice and ritual: constitutional rights and freedoms, and an economic reality of liberty and a relative value, similar to Heidegger’s cultural relativism, and the inherent income disparities. … Continue reading →

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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Dave

The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading →

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