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Tag: politics

The Pathology of NeoConservative ‘Manliness’

Posted on June 1, 2020December 19, 2020 by Gus

Harvey Mansfield is a leading Neoconservative scholar, as well as having been Bill Kristol’s mentor at Harvard.  In 2006 Mansfield published Manliness to facilitate supposedly emasculated American males in regaining pride in their inner selves, while persuading emasculating American women … Read more

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Neoconservatism’s Paradoxical Origins

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Neoconservatism has a complex parentage, partly home grown and even more European.  It originally grew out of tensions internal to many liberals who made up a crucial part of the Democratic coalition Franklin Roosevelt had created, a coalition that had … Read more

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Power, Evil, and the Crisis of Our Times: an animist view

Posted on January 31, 2020January 11, 2022 by Gus

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Presented at the Conference on Current Pagan Studies, Jan. 25-6, 2020

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In 2013 I published Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine.  Written largely in 2010, … Read more

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The right wing’s Orwellian manipulation of ‘socialism’

Posted on April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 by Gus

All of a sudden, some right wing online commentators are emphasizing that Scandinavian nations are “not socialist.” I am seeing this claim in many places of late. But for years, decades even, right wing commentators have called Sweden in particular … Read more

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The Trance of Belief: Part I.

Posted on April 27, 2016October 15, 2018 by Gus

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I have been both fascinated and appalled at how quickly mostly the political right has abandoned reason and evidence in favor of assertion and arrogance in discussing issues. Here is what I think is going on.  I published it in … Read more

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A brief overview of the Vietnam Protest Movement

Posted on May 9, 2013May 9, 2020 by Gus

The second major precipitating event for the 60s was the Vietnam War.  Detractors of the 60s generation like pointing to pro-communist sympathies by some war opponents, the better to discredit the protests as a whole. To be sure, communists were … Read more

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