Word: asceticism
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There are only two ways to avoid liberal hypocrisy altogether. The first way is to eschew all sensory pleasures, dress in rags, and eat saltines every night for dinner. The leftist ascetic who sacrifices everything for his beliefs in social justice is undefeated in the many battles of the civil...
Bin Laden was raised in Saudi Arabian affluence and has spent much of his life that way. I believe he is living somewhere in the kind of comfort allowed by his wealth. If you think he and his entourage are living an ascetic life in a dismal cave, you are...
"Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all." Thus TIME described Mohandas Gandhi, in prison for mobilizing Indians against the British raj. A believer in "passive resistance" who...
At the same trial, al-Zawahiri was sentenced to death in absentia. Some intelligence experts believe the failure of his terrorism campaign against the Egyptian government led him to refocus his war onto the U.S., which he hated for supporting Mubarak, the Saudi royal family and Israel. In 1996 U.S...
The narrative, broken into three thinly-connected chapters, begins with an explanation of Willie’s name. His Brahmin father narrates the twisted trajectory of his own adolescent rebellion in India. To spite his family and his caste, Willie’s father becomes a sadhu, or ascetic holy...