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The ABC’s of Antisemitism
19th C. image of The Wandering Jew Antisemitism entails much more than a direct assault upon Jewish life. But as a multifaceted part of the imagination, certain aspects of this phobia emerge at...
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Whitney’s spectacular demise
Whitney with snakylocks I have written many blogs complaining about primitivism, racism, and the decline of American civilization. (see http://clarespark.com/2010/04/08/racism-modernity-modernism/.) I...
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History as trauma
Bruce Bartlett This blog started out as a meditation on Bruce Bartlett’s Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). (For a conversation between the author and...
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The social history racket
[Nothing in this blog should be taken as an attack on the writing of social history. What I object to is the abandonment of diplomatic and military history as "elitist," a perverse populist move.] I...
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Censorship, bohemia, and the Big Sleep
Haruhi Gothic Lolita Having announced that I was thinking of writing a new blog on censorship in the arts and in the media, numerous Facebook friends sent me comments expressing their own disgust with...
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What is cultural relativism?
Briefly, cultural relativism does NOT mean that there are no impermissible human actions—sex and violence for instance, but that different cultures have ethical systems that make sense to them, given...
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Monster Moms
sweet kaulitz09, Deviant Art Ever since I read Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers (1942) I have been racking my brains for the origins of his diatribe against MOM. Here is how Wylie, later to be...
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