HeyJaredL'esprit de l'escalier | Dolan Cummings
Essays looking behind and beyond the long shadow of the 20th century
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A Tale of Two Spectres (opens the original)
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It is the best of times, it is the worst of times, as two spectres haunt Europe and the world. Nearly two centuries after Marx and Engels sought to give flesh to the spectre of communism with their Communist Manifesto, some credit their supposed heirs with having captured the institutions of the West, not by revolution but by slow cunning. Meanwhile, others worry about the rise of a new ‘holy alliance’, not against communism but against liberalism. And that alliance, if not exactly uniting Pope
What is the Judeo-Christian tradition? (opens the original)
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When people talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition today, they are almost invariably counterposing Western civilisation to Islam.In fact, critics often object that the term deliberately excludes the third of the three Abrahamic faiths, since – as strange as it seems given modern history – Islam is essentially another offshoot from the ancient religion of the Jews. Muslims revere not only Abraham/Ibrahim but also Moses and the other Hebrew prophets, right up to Jesus and Mary. Indeed, it can be
The primacy of the pre-political (opens the original)
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The US Supreme Court recently struck down President Trump’s executive order withholding automatic citizenship from those born to parents in the country illegally or on temporary visas. In doing so, the court affirmed the very literal interpretation of birthright citizenship that has long been wrapped up in America’s idea of itself, and that was constitutionalised through the 14th Amendment after the Civil War.It is further testament to the peculiarity of the USA that birthright citizenship has a
The Sacred Virgin and the Spurned Bride (opens the original)
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