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“A liberal has to tell a hundred stories, or a thousand. A communist has one story, which might not turn out to be true. A fascist just has to be a storyteller.” newyorker.com/magazine/dispa…
“An affluent society that thinks it is living in a hellscape is ripe for gulling by dictators who are willing to play along with such delusions.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
“It’s bubbling up from below in very worrisome ways, and that’s very much like the original fascisms,” Paxton said. “It’s the real thing. It really is.”
nytimes.com/2024/10/23/magaz… via @NYTimes
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Une bande-annonce qui risque d’intéresser du monde. Et ça commence bientôt!
open.spotify.com/episode/725…
Un fil salutaire sur une éthique (minimale) de la lecture.
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“He went on: ‘I am not on the Earth to feel good. I’m not on the Earth to do my own thing. I’m on this Earth as a God-appointed warrior in a dark time.’” theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
"A los antepasados de mi sangre y a los antepasados de mis sueños he exaltado y cantado."
Jorge Luis Borges, “Casi juicio final”
laliberte.ch/news/regions/un…
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“Trump deserves the disapprobation of evangelical Christians, not their vote. But he will get their vote, in overwhelming numbers, even if he has sold out the very cause they once professed greatest devotion to.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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"Almost immediately the consensus historians appropriated the 'Bebbington quadrilateral,' and it is now ubiquitous in the literature. Yet, the Bebbington quadrilateral is so vague and generic that most Christians in most places in most eras could claim it."
– Great piece!
Curious why historians and other scholars failed to anticipate evangelicals' enthusiasm for Trump? I try to explain what went wrong here:
academic.oup.com/jaar/advanc…
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“However, among self-described White evangelicals, 8 in 10 in six battleground states said in an April/May Washington Post-Schar School poll that they’d “probably” or “definitely” vote for Trump.” washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
“Opposition to abortion is critical, but it cannot be the ONLY political outworking of our loyalty to God and his Word.”
– A notable shift away from the Christian Right's polarization strategies around a single issue
“The battlefield conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine created the possibility of using the state to spread Christianity.
The quandary of how to navigate faith and politics, church and government, has not left us since.”
christianitytoday.com/ct/202…
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La Louisiane impose d’afficher les dix commandements en classe, espérant ouvrir la voie à d’autres États – via @courrierinter courrierinternational.com/ar…
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“What the universities haven’t done is train their students to talk with one another.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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“Have we been misinformed about the power of misinformation?” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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«Civil War est un film de guerre antiguerre. [...] Mais s’il est aussi accablant, […] c’est parce que l’histoire ne nécessite que peu d’explications pour paraître crédible.» courrierinternational.com/ar…
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Trump courtise la Droite chrétienne US.
Remarquable intervention de mon collègue @andre_gagne1.
Donald Trump courtise le vote religieux | 24•60 youtu.be/btK7VjYqYo4?si=naRf… via @YouTube