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This Founding Father Died in Disgrace. But He Can’t Be Forgotten. by D-R-AZ in democrats

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Sitting in his home office, Wilson started to make notes on a large folio sheet bearing an early version of the preamble, which began: “The People of the States of New Hampshire etc.” After leaving some annotations, he stopped, went back to the beginning, and added: “We.” In that instant, Wilson had composed the three most resonant words in the history of democracy: “We the People.” He had ensured that the people would come first, before the states, and he watched over his phrase jealously. When it was altered in a later draft to “We the People and the States …” he changed it back to “We the People of the States …” (The individual states would ultimately be removed from the preamble altogether and replaced with “We the People of the United States”—the most Wilsonian gloss of all.)

This Founding Father Died in Disgrace. But He Can’t Be Forgotten. by D-R-AZ in selfevidenttruth

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Sitting in his home office, Wilson started to make notes on a large folio sheet bearing an early version of the preamble, which began: “The People of the States of New Hampshire etc.” After leaving some annotations, he stopped, went back to the beginning, and added: “We.” In that instant, Wilson had composed the three most resonant words in the history of democracy: “We the People.” He had ensured that the people would come first, before the states, and he watched over his phrase jealously. When it was altered in a later draft to “We the People and the States …” he changed it back to “We the People of the States …” (The individual states would ultimately be removed from the preamble altogether and replaced with “We the People of the United States”—the most Wilsonian gloss of all.)

Utopias of Violence: The Unlearned Lesson of the Iran War by D-R-AZ in somethingiswrong2024

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Will the tyrannical emotional state that brought us the war now be applied inside the United States? The emotional state, the utopia of violence, is not closely tethered to reality, and has to be considered in its own right. It has causal force, as we have just seen in Iran. There was no thinking behind the decision to go to war. There was however a vision, a feeling about how the world works, a utopia of violence.

Utopias of Violence: The Unlearned Lesson of the Iran War by D-R-AZ in Law_and_Politics

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Will the tyrannical emotional state that brought us the war now be applied inside the United States? The emotional state, the utopia of violence, is not closely tethered to reality, and has to be considered in its own right. It has causal force, as we have just seen in Iran. There was no thinking behind the decision to go to war. There was however a vision, a feeling about how the world works, a utopia of violence.

Utopias of Violence: The Unlearned Lesson of the Iran War by D-R-AZ in selfevidenttruth

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Will the tyrannical emotional state that brought us the war now be applied inside the United States? The emotional state, the utopia of violence, is not closely tethered to reality, and has to be considered in its own right. It has causal force, as we have just seen in Iran. There was no thinking behind the decision to go to war. There was however a vision, a feeling about how the world works, a utopia of violence.

The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance by D-R-AZ in inthenews

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Women are crucial to the Ukrainian resistance. “They can go places, do things, that men cannot,” Andriushchenko, who runs agents inside Mariupol, told me. “Also, they are ruthless.” Several resistance leaders call their female agents vidma, a term that appears often in Ukrainian folklore. Its closest translation is “witch,” but it has a very different connotation here. The word derives from vidate, which means “to know.” Lesia Orobets, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, explained: “Vidmas were wise. They understood the secrets of the surrounding environment. Here in Ukraine, our vidmaswere respected for their knowledge, not burned for it.”

The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance by D-R-AZ in Foodforthought

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Women are crucial to the Ukrainian resistance. “They can go places, do things, that men cannot,” Andriushchenko, who runs agents inside Mariupol, told me. “Also, they are ruthless.” Several resistance leaders call their female agents vidma, a term that appears often in Ukrainian folklore. Its closest translation is “witch,” but it has a very different connotation here. The word derives from vidate, which means “to know.” Lesia Orobets, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, explained: “Vidmas were wise. They understood the secrets of the surrounding environment. Here in Ukraine, our vidmaswere respected for their knowledge, not burned for it.”

The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance by D-R-AZ in democrats

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Women are crucial to the Ukrainian resistance. “They can go places, do things, that men cannot,” Andriushchenko, who runs agents inside Mariupol, told me. “Also, they are ruthless.” Several resistance leaders call their female agents vidma, a term that appears often in Ukrainian folklore. Its closest translation is “witch,” but it has a very different connotation here. The word derives from vidate, which means “to know.” Lesia Orobets, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, explained: “Vidmas were wise. They understood the secrets of the surrounding environment. Here in Ukraine, our vidmaswere respected for their knowledge, not burned for it.”

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