Sublime

Weil aber in der die letzten Jahrzehnte herrschenden Naturlehre nichts, aber auch gar nichts auf diesen Eigenwert hindeutete, verlassen wir mit einem solchen Argument den Boden, auf dem eine politische Debatte noch möglich ist, und müssen uns als Träumer und Spinner beschimpfen lassen.

Several months later, in December 1892, the valiant, independent-minded Abbé Frémont noted regretfully in his journal, “Hatred of the Republic and of Jews is today the sustenance of French clergy. Drumont is their preceptor. Above all, don’t tear this choice morsel out of their mouths: if you try, you will immediately be smeared with ink and blacke

moues

Just as Marx called into question the naturalness of work under capitalism – showing it not as a natural attribute of humanity but a historically specific and violent arrangement – women associated with the Wages for Housework movement sought to show that the unpaid work women did in the home was not out of a natural feminine benevolence, but explo

The modern woman is a blur of activity. She is pressured to be all things to all people. The old knowing is long overdue.

solidity of those women

my political education, I learned how the civil rights movement had been negatively impacted by the same charismatic leaders who so inspired me.