Sublime

The milieu most favorable for the rise and propagation of mass movements is one in which a once compact corporate structure is, for one reason or another, in a state of disintegration.

And as the audience filed out after his speech, student volunteers, standing at the door polite and respectful under the eye of his new young friend, passed out more flyers, mimeographed by his new young friend, summarizing the speech’s main points; he had just had his campaign climaxed, Welly Hopkins realized, with a rally planned down to the last

At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.

Before Moses, the public authority had been a mere instrument of the city, a body established by the city’s duly constituted, elected officials to carry out one of their decisions. His public authorities had been set up to do what they wanted done. Now his authorities would do what he wanted done.

Arafat knew he could get Israel to overreact, first by electing a more hawkish prime minister to replace the dovish Ehud Barak,

Ces traits antidémocratiques, estompés par des circonvolutions théoriques parfois assez obscures chez Laclau, trouvent une expression dénuée de toute ambiguïté chez Chantal Mouffe. Concernant la figure du chef, elle indique qu’« il est très difficile de trouver des exemples de mouvements politiques d’ampleur qui n’aient pas connu de chefs », en

Moses’ use of the technique was a totally conscious one. Knowing precisely what he was doing—“the first rule is to stay on the side of the angels”—he continually urged reporters, under the guise of modesty, to “stick to the parks and playgrounds and bridges, and don’t write about me.” And he had consistently made sure that his instructions were

As long as he didn’t fight, La Guardia had learned, Moses would provide him with a seemingly inexhaustible cornucopia of political benefits. If he did fight, Moses would humiliate and defeat him. The little Mayor had learned—the hard way—that it was better not to interfere.

At the Freedom School, Charles became particularly enamored of the work of two laissez-faire economists, the Austrian theorist Ludwig von Mises and his star pupil, Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian exile, who visited the Freedom School. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom had become an improbable best seller in 1944, after Reader’s Digest published a