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...their opinions about Israel and its policies." Of course, no such effort among "Israel’s defenders" exists, and, if it did, there would surely be plenty of Jews—self-professed anti-Zionists among them—to undermine it. More important, to believe something as absurd as the idea that all 13 million Jews agree, one would already need to hold ugly views of Jews as conspiratorial and alien. All of this confirms what everyone but Matory already knows: Bigotry is always the fault of bigots, never of its victims...
...designation. But since whatever prestige might once have been attached to designing and teaching a Core class has been destroyed, there is no longer any incentive to improve courses for a dying system. Many professors are understandably unwilling to shoehorn their courses into the Core administration’s absurd one-syllabus-fits-all model, which requires midterms and finals. None of these problems are new—they have been mentioned by students for years and were mentioned by the Task Force on General Education last year. But little to nothing is being done to fix these problems...
...what? To make sure Florida and everyone else adhere to one of the most absurd presidential nominating processes in the free world? It's amusing to hear the DNC big shots argue that if Florida got its way in this case it would invite "chaos" in the primary system. One of the main reasons Florida wanted to move its primary up in the first place was to get ahead of the chaos that already exists. Third World countries like Mexico today hold more modern and truly democratic primaries than America's, whose Iowa- and New Hampshire-centric traditions seem...
...Teresa's inability to perceive Christ in her life did not mean he wasn't there. In fact, they see his absence as part of the divine gift that enabled her to do great work. But to the U.S.'s increasingly assertive cadre of atheists, that argument will seem absurd. They will see the book's Teresa more like the woman in the archetypal country-and-western song who holds a torch for her husband 30 years after he left to buy a pack of cigarettes and never returned. Says Christopher Hitchens, author of The Missionary Position, a scathing polemic...
...framing his campaign this way, Giuliani has raised an interesting question. What does it actually mean to understand terrorism? His supporters might find the question absurd. He owns terrorism, they say. The entire world watched on television as Giuliani led New York City through the aftermath of a terrorism attack. To his opponents, the answer is equally plain: he has no foreign policy experience, and he talks about terrorism as if it's an enemy country on a continent only he knows how to find...