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...Germans - for understandable reasons - do not boast of their own nation's führerschaft. But American politicians, of all stripes, have no problem in claiming a leadership role for the U.S. - in fact, they regard it as axiomatic that the U.S. should "lead" the world. As David Rieff argued recently in World Affairs, "President Bush has argued that the war in Iraq was a demonstration of America's moral leadership, whereas his liberal opponents claim that Iraq was where the U.S. forfeited its moral leadership. What no one questions is the certainty that we are capable of, indeed accustomed...
DIED. Philip Rieff, 83, conservative sociologist and cultural theorist at the University of Pennsylvania best known for a trio of books on the destructive impact of Sigmund Freud; in Philadelphia. In January, Rieff published his last book, Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks--in which he cites legal abortion, the gay-rights movement and pop music as examples of cultural decline--and dedicated it to the memory of his first wife, essayist Susan Sontag...
...clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss an s.o.b.? The western men do, and they are happy men." --TIME, March...
This afternoon, Philip Rieff, associate professor of Speech at the University of California, will speak on the topic, "On Being an Intellectual: Two Traditions." The lecture starts at 3 p.m. in Burr...
...many of the struggles around the world, humanitarianism may simply be a Band-Aid and an irrelevance. Rieff quotes Jose-Maria Mendiluce, the UNHCR's first special envoy to the Balkans, as saying, "You don't reply to fascism with relief supplies, and you don't counter ethnic cleansing with reception centers for the displaced." Oxfam called for a cease-fire during the Rwandan genocide, but as an observer pointed out, that would have left half of Rwanda in the hands of those Hutu perpetrating the genocide and thus would have allowed them to finish what they had started...