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...similar activities would they have been approached by the police?” That is a fair question, and it behooves us to take it seriously. (In my 37 years at Harvard, five of them living at Radcliffe, I have never seen “non-Harvard African-Americans?? assembled in large numbers on the Radcliffe Quad engaged in recreational activities...
Unfortunately, in the battle for Americans?? hearts and purse strings, hawks still have an edge. But not for much longer. One more Katrina, and instant energy independence will hardly be the most pressing raison d’être for stringent energy standards. In the meantime, the concern should shift from one of barrels of oil imported to tons of CO2 emitted...
...inaugural address, Kennedy sought to lead “a new generation of Americans?? to face the challenges of the Cold War. Obama wants to be a modern incarnation of that figurehead; throughout American history, he proclaimed, “a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more—and it is time for our generation to answer that call...
...Self-help books are instruction manuals for social mobility. There is something quintessentially American about the whole genre: rugged individualism repackaged for suburban moms. They resonate with Americans?? conviction that economic success is available to everyone; the key is just the right attitude...
...ever-increasing number of Americans??both in absolute numbers and as a proportion of the population—are becoming unbelievers. In fact, although most Americans happily call themselves Christian, we are fast becoming a godless nation. Religious pandering—from Jimmy Carter’s born-again rhetoric to Bush’s compassionate conservatism—has masked the real story about religion in modern America: the gradual, but inexorable, rise of secularism since World...