Ernest Van den Haag
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The Jewish Mystique
13 editions
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published
1969
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The Death Penalty: A Debate
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7 editions
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published
1983
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Punishing Criminals
7 editions
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published
1975
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Capitalism
2 editions
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published
1979
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Political violence and civil disobedience (Harper torchbooks, TB 1626)
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U. S. Ends and Means in Central America: A Debate
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3 editions
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published
1988
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Deterring Potential Criminals
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The U.N. In or Out?
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2 editions
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published
1987
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Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America
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Education as an Industry
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“I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients.”
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“The mass produced article need not aim low, but it must aim at an average of tastes. In satisfying all (or at least many) individual tastes in some respects, it violates each in other respects. For there are so far no average persons having average tastes. Averages are but statistical composites. A mass produced article, while reflecting nearly everybody’s taste to some extent, is unlikely to embody anybody’s taste fully. This is one source of the sense of violation which is rationalized vaguely in theories about deliberate debasement of taste.”
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“Though the bored person hungers for things to happen to him, the disheartening fact is that when they do he empties them of the very meaning he unconsciously yearns for by using them as distractions. In popular culture even the second com- ing would become just another ‘barren’ thrill to be watched on television till Milton Berle comes on.”
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