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“Antigone emerges as a figure of pure desire precisely because, with her words and actions, she incites in others this tenacious question: What does she want? She states what she wants from the outset, yet there is no one in the play who is not baffled at one point or another by this question: OK, she wants to bury Polyneices, but what does she actually want?”

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Book:Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax
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“The culture wars that have convulsed America since the sixties are best understood as a form of class warfare, in which an enlightened elite (as it thinks of itself) seeks not so much to impose its values on the majority (a majority perceived as incorrigibly racist, sexist, provincial, and xenophobic), much less to persuade the majority by means of rational public debate, as to create parallel or "alternative" institutions in which it will no longer be necessary to confront the unenlightened at all.”

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Book:The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
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“Attention, as well as being a commodity that can be monetised through digital platforms, is a psychological wage. We know this from when we are children: think of the heaven of basking in the glow of an attentive parent or teacher. To be recognised is to be told that you matter, that your life has worth and that you have a place in the world. There’s nothing unhealthy about that. But our media and politics leverage the psychological wages of attention in a way that is utterly corrosive and warping.”

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Book:Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
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“Culture war is only possible when Americans look to their government to establish a cultural template for the nation but disagree about what that template should look like. Another way of putting it: culture war is the natural consequence of nationalism because people will inevitably fight over the definition of the “nation,” especially who counts as a member of the nation.”

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Book:The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism
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“Now the “earth turns over” just as Immanuel Velikovsky predicted. A horrific 90-degrees tilt of the earth in which the weight of ice packs in Greenland and Antarctica precipitates the 12,000-year cyclical catastrophe foretold by so many from humanity’s past. T. S. Eliot stands avenged; the world as we know it goes out with a whimper.”

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Book:Adam & Eve's Ashes: Magnetic Pole Shift, Ancient Prophecy, and Catastrophism
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