Word: argumentative
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...disagree with the argument advanced in Emily Ingram’s piece from February 15 (“Clash of Civlizations,” op-ed). While I recognize the right of European bigots to defame Islam if they choose to, these cartoons cannot be examined outside the context of the anti-Muslim sentiment that has, of late, gained so much legitimacy in European public discourse. The spurious examination employed by Ms. Ingram naturally leads to quaint visions of a "clash of civilizations" or of a noble Europe bearing the burden of free speech against rapacious Muslims who just don?...
These two kinds of divestment campaigns can both have real though very different effects. What class of argument for divestment a campaign makes will determine which of the two categories it falls into and what kind of effect the campaign can have...
Nonetheless, the argument for divestment from PetroChina was much more profound than both general gravitas and the other common argument for divestment, the infliction of financial pain on evildoers. In the second category of divestment campaigns, the demand is that Harvard terminate a direct money flow between the endowment and the finances of injustice, because even just remotely funding evil is morally intolerable...
...modern society with room for both children and women's careers. German women have to lead the movement for change, and change always hurts. Anne Gro Gulla Oslo Power Politics In his column "Be careful what you wish for," Michael Elliott referred to political scientist Michael Mandelbaum's argument that the U.S. has promoted global security by reducing the threat of world war [Jan. 23]. In quoting Mandelbaum's theories, Elliott evokes the prominent role of the U.S. during the past few decades in the peacemaking processes around the world. Elliott deplores the loneliness of the U.S. in its quest...
...used the case to serve a broader agenda, an agenda that calls for taking sentencing decisions out of the hands of judges. But, by showing that he and his allies are willing to play politics with such an important decision, O’Reilly undermined his own argument. If justice, not politics, is to determine sentencing decisions, then judges, not politicians and pundits, must decide...