the Procrustean bed of Weimar
an authority for Winkler’s own encomium to those very conceptions
Athenian democracy, vitiated by slavery and the exclusion of women, was a fraudulent irrelevance, which Madison rightly rejected as mob rule, to be avoided at all costs in the nascent United States
it was the collapse of the Eastern bloc in 1989 that gave the decisive fillip to Winkler’s career
He was fond of an autobiographical synecdoche: when interviewed, he said that an important thread running through his work began with a book review he found in his uncle Szolem’s wastepaper basket
hm interesting use, not entirely sure how that works
