Adams's Federalist presidency was more bitter still, and the 1800 rematch produced charges of atheism and libertinism against Jefferson, and of monarchism against Adams. |
There is more than a hint of hedonism, indeed a new libertinism. |
But Shanley is simply the flower of the sexual libertinism that our culture advocates in a million voices. |
It's quite possible to reject social conservatism without falling into some exaggerated libertinism. |
We are being returned to the 18th century, that dissolute era of libertinism and lotteries. |
But libertinism itself is as distinct from libertarianism as worship of Mammon is distinct from conservatism. |