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...what the body recognizes as "other" has, through evolution, been incorporated into who we are. When we place this fact in the context of Holub's other essays, many of which deal with the injustice of social exclusion and persecution, it acquires a powerfully political resonance. While hardly an apologist for disease, Holub uses the analogy to suggest that our social conception of "self" and "other" is just as misleading as our naive conception of disease...
...theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange of letters between Sir Arnold Lunn and Father Ronald Knox. Lunn, who invented skiing's slalom, was then an agnostic--he later converted--and Knox a famous Catholic apologist. Most readers will have to take on faith Buckley's assertion that this out-of-print tome has not been fatally "anachronized...
...White House learned that House minority leader Dick Gephardt was planning to support the bill. That would open the way for nervous Democrats to get behind it in droves, maybe even enough to give it a veto-proof majority. It also threatened to leave Al Gore stranded as apologist for the taxman in the next Democratic presidential primaries, which potential rivals like Gephardt and Kerrey would be happy to see. That was enough for Clinton. On Tuesday he went public with his turnaround. On Wednesday the bill rumbled out of Ways and Means with a vote...
...extend such diplomatic recognition to breakaway practitioners like Weil is an open question. Part of the problem appears to be Weil himself. Even after 30 years, many of his mainstream colleagues still remember him mostly for his marijuana studies and persist in seeing him, at best, as a drug apologist and, at worst, as an advocate. Weil hasn't always helped his own cause: his third book, From Chocolate to Morphine (Houghton Mifflin, 1983), seemed to argue for the essential blamelessness of most mind-altering drugs and to make little distinction between plants like cocoa and plants like coca...
...diversely hall-marked experience instead of anything resembling veritas. Truth demands a sobering progression toward it and away from everything else. The heady democratic ideal of limitless experience, by contrast, encourages permanent disorientation, immoderate openness and intransigent immaturity. Once a promiser of maturity, our university is now an apologist for adolescence...