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Whitman was that. He knew the works of like-minded European writers, such as Carlyle and Goethe, but as a free man in the New World he did not acknowledge their influence. Rather, he saw himself as "a master after my own kind," a phrase that suggests messianic paganism that...
The most visible sign of how the war has affected the Iranian capital of Tehran is the disappearance of the maddening, noxious traffic jams that once clogged the city from dawn to dusk. As a result of gasoline rationing and restrictions on privately owned cars, taxis and buses travel at...
(9 of 15) the social structure and brought with them trends that seem like paganism to devout Muslims. In addition, Muslims have bitter memories of a century or more of Western colonialism that kept most Islamic countries in servitude until a generation ago, and they tend to see U.S. support...
Science and paganism at the service of a reactionary doctrine
Equally hostile to capitalism, Marxism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition, New Righters look fondly back to pagan and Indo-European cultures for alternative social models. Explaining paganism's curious fascination for them, New Right Journalist Louis Pauwels says, "We do not wish to burn Bibles or churches, but their...