A Public Service Courtesy of the Transgressive Transcendentalists (a.k.a. God's Unruly Friends*)
Monday, July 23, 2018
The Know Nothing Party
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. With any luck, similar historical markers will appear in the coming decades bearing witness to the demise of the Republican Party. That will be one down, one to go.
I have taken the term "God's Unruly Friends" from the title of Ahmet T. Karamustafa's eponymous book (subtitled: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Middle Period 1200-1550), Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. Professor Karamustafa, a man of formidable scholarship and consummate taste, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this blog. His book has a rather oblique and complicated relevance to my blog insofar as it has helped me to get in touch with my own inner Dervish--but that is neither the fault of the book nor its author.
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