[lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber

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Sat May 3 14:27:54 PDT 2003


Sinclair Lewis wrote that book a long time ago -- Elmer Gantry, I believe. jks

Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: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.

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