More juxtapositions

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

On David Horowitz this time (via Crooked Timber), Jennifer Jacobson writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education:

For Mr. Horowitz, this battle is personal. He is feisty, single-minded, and like many a professor, loves to lecture. He is a man of contradictions. An ideologue with feelings, he is sensitive to how he appears in press accounts and admits he sometimes overreacts. While he wants desperately to be included in the academy -- for professors to assign his books and invite him to speak in classes -- he seems eager to punish it, in part, for turning a cold shoulder to his work. And although he contends his bill of rights is not a political document, it is large conservative foundations that make sure he, and the handful of people helping him, have plenty of cash for the fight.

A continent away, and one hundred and eighteen years earlier:

For every sufferer instinctively seeks a cause for his suffering; more exactly, an agent; still more specifically, a guilty agent who is susceptible to suffering—in short, some living thing upon which he can, on some pretext or other, vent his affects, actually or in effigy: for the venting of his affects represents the greatest attempt on the part of the suffering to win relief, anaesthesia—the narcotic he cannot help desiring to deaden pain of any kind. This alone, I surmise, constitutes the actual physiological cause of ressentiment, vengefulness, and the like: a desire to deaden pain by means of affects.

Friedrich Nietzsche. On the Genealogy of Morals. Walter Kaufmann, trans. New York: Random House, 1967. P. 127 [Pt. III, Sec. 15].