So they dispatched a man with a camera into the hinterland to catch the sage on film.

Amish books and Amish baseball. Amish are clearly having a moment... again.

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Quoting Charles Taylor quoting Schiller; from his essay "Disenchantment--Reenchantment" in The Joy of Secuarlism, now out in paperback.

"Panopticism is a form of knowledge and a form of power."

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"Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it."

by David Halperin All were extraordinary, in ways that did hardly a speck of good for any of them....

From Michel Foucault's The Subject and Power (1982)