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The Concept of the Political (Carl Schmitt)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Why the Left Politizes Everything

Schmidt: Designating the adversary as political and oneself as non-political is in actuality a typical and unusually intensive way of pursuing politics. In Latin, the two words are hostess for public enemy and enemicus for private enemy. The latter is derived from in, meaning not, an amicus, friend, thus not friend. No better recent example exists than the left reaction to the Wuhan Plague," he says.

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