[lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 3 08:34:32 PDT 2003


Jim Farmelant wrote:


>Relentless Moral Crusader Is Relentless Gambler
>By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
>Online reports assert that William J. Bennett, author of
>"The Book of Virtues" and a relentless moral crusader, has
>lost more than $8 million at casinos in the last decade.

Slavoj has a riff somewhere about how things like this aren't hypocrisy, but are instead an illustration of the inseparability of hypermoralism and prurience - the two go inseparbly together, like Jimmy Swaggart and prostitutes.

Doug



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