“It’s left to the private individual to be his own priest. But not only that. It’s also left to him to be he his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the privat…”— Carl Schmitt, amazon.com
“But if, as in this election, a man who spews hate and vulgarity, with no comprehension of how government works, can become presidentially plausible because he is magnetic while a capable, workaholic woman who knows policy inside and out struggles because she is not magnetic, perhaps we should reeval…”— Brigitte Lacombe, nymag.com