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“Rieff has a book entitled Charisma: The Gift of Grace and How it Has Been Taken From Us (very cheap on Amazon or AbeBooks), and he argues that charisma was originally a product of abstention and self-discipline--the one who could withstand temptation better than others, obey a higher imperative, exercised the power of charisma (which really means "gift") over his fellows.”

— Adam Katz, Bouvard on Reformist Absolutism and Democratic Fragility · Nov 25, 2017 · Reddit