The Humanities in the Shadow of Terror

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Abstract

George W. Bush’s State of the Union address early in 2003 was both masterful and tawdry. It was a speech of speciously linked themes and metaphors, roping together liberty, peace, God, and humanity, into the service of legitimizing a totalizing war.