For some reason, I’ve managed to miss the very-good Bad Conscience blog up until now. It’s worth a visit, if only to read this post on Max Weber’s notion of plebiscitary Caesars. They are, it seems, the kind of political leaders that we yearn for: “Weber believed that mass democracy held out the promise of ensuring new kinds [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Voters as ‘cougars’?
It seems that Madonna isn’t the only one who is taking an interest in attractive young men. The voters seem to be following suit as well with all of the political headlines being made by younger men. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is brutal way that the Lib-Dems ditched Menzies Campbell last year, [...]
