Word: jacobin
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...sound like the current presidential campaign, but the year was 1800 and the beleaguered candidate was Thomas Jefferson. Four years earlier, he had lost the presidency to John Adams in an election fraught with religious angst. Jacobin revolutionaries had taken over France, closed its churches and threatened to export their reign of terror. Supporters of Adams' Federalist Party linked Jefferson to the French secularists through his defense of revolutionary France and support for the separation of church and state. Adams, in contrast, they argued, was a man of God who opposed radical French ideas, and under his rule America...
...opportunity to prove their worth as mature, tactful participants in Harvard’s administrative structures, and have acquitted themselves flawlessly—it is doubtless only a matter of time before the College accedes to their eloquently, insistently stated demands.Last week, the College’s positively Jacobin interim dean, David Pilbeam, let the axe fall on the UC’s weekly party grants, the nascent micro-finance of Harvard’s social life. Party grants have propelled the development of a quasi-fetal social scene among the world’s most socially underprivileged animals?...
...Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” Apple Chairman Steve Jobs gleefully proclaimed last week at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Maoist China had Little Red Books, Jacobin France had Phrygian Caps; Any doubts about the icon by which our age will be remembered have surely now been dispelled with a Multi-Touch click. The vanguard of cell phones, laptops, and music players have finally achieved the sleek unity that is the iRevolution’s ultimate victory. And this revolution occurs at the crucial intersection of our crazed gadgetphilia...
...save its precious safety net. If reforms do not pass, the whole European project is at stake. This is about adaptation or extinction. In 1968, amidst the barricades that inspired Jean Paul Sartre, ideals rotted because of extremism and ideological stagnation. Beautiful dreams turned into anarchism, burning books, and Jacobin violence. Today, Michel Houellebecq, a prominent French writer, points out how even the utopian sexual revolution was perverted into a quasi-capitalist system of inescapable repression and perversion. So much for college dreams. According to another ’68 slogan, beneath the cobblestones, the beach lay. The beach...
Finally, to describe French society as “a society formerly of one cultural, linguistic, and ethnic mode” is to take the utopian aspiration of the Jacobin revolutionaries for an eternal truth. In 1790, Father Henri Gregoire pointed out that most French citizens did not speak French, and he made a long list of the various regional dialects and languages spoken in France. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many immigrants settled in France. Among the 10 most common family names in France today, one can find “Garcia...