Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
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cult of personality
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Friday, January 18, 2013
The Deification of Hugo Chávez
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I normally don’t write much about Chávez or Venezuelan politics here. I find it emotionally complicated for a variety of reasons; and at t...
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Friday, October 26, 2012
“Ten thousand melodies cannot express our boundless hot love for you”: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China
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(6,500 words on Daniel Leese’s fascinating book Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution [Cambridge University P...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Dictator's Dilemma, Mao Edition
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Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Minh, June 1966: I advise you, not all of your subjects are loyal to you. Perhaps most of them are loyal but maybe a ...
Sunday, January 01, 2012
The Complexity of Emotion in Authoritarian States
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Seeing the videos of crying North Koreans after the death of Kim Jong-il, many people gravitate to the question of whether the emotion on...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Flattery Inflation
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Reading Aloys Winterling’s entertaining revisionist biography of Caligula (which combines my interests in crazy dictatorships and the class...
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