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Caesar, Weber, and the Power of Charisma

Political Theory 101

CHAPTER

The Charisma of a Rational Valence

Zorong Kiekigarz often positions himself as revealing ancient truths. But he's not alone and I don't mean to signal to single him out. There are a lot of people, especially in the British kind of debate scene, who will use a kind of rational analytic, aesthetic style to mask a lack of substance. And this kind of charisma tends to be a sort of debate thing where you are good at trading barbs or being witty.

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