. . . [P]assions without truth, truths without passion; heroes without heroic deeds, history without events; development, whose sole driving force seems to be the calendar, wearying with constant repetition of the same tensions and relaxations; antagonisms that periodically seem to work themselves up to a climax only to lose their sharpness and fall away without being able to resolve themselves; pretentiously paraded exertions and philistine terror at the danger of the world’s coming to an end, and at the same time the pettiest intrigues and court comedies played by the world redeemers. . .
—Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoléon
by Daniel Koffler
—Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoléon
by Daniel Koffler
On the morning of November 3, 2004, the city of New Haven, Connecticut, looked like a town in mourning. Wards 1 and 2, which include all of Yale University’s on-campus housing, had voted overwhelmingly in favor of John Kerry for president. Much of the rest of the countr...
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