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Thomas’ argument is that since the late 1970s the Harvard Law School (HLS) campus has been taken over by far-left “Crits,” or followers of the Critical Legal Studies school of thought. As “postmodernism [applied] to law,” Critical Legal Studies aims to deconstruct the biases inherent in the legal system...
Bennett's book is only one side of a sharp argument over Lincoln and race, but its success served as a sharp reminder that--just as in all previous times--modern America will insist on seeing Lincoln on its own terms. Consider C.A. Tripp and his argument that Lincoln was gay. His book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln begins with the fact that Lincoln during his late 20s and early 30s shared a bed with a young man named Joshua Speed. As President, Lincoln may also have shared his bed with a captain of his guard unit in Washington...
...week, President Reagan barely defeated a challenge in the Senate Finance Committee, when rebellious legislators fell one vote short of the majority needed to block impending negotiations on free trade with neighboring Canada. Meanwhile, the U.S. and the European Community are holding talks in an effort to resolve an argument over restrictions on American agricultural exports to Spain and Portugal. The U.S. has threatened to retaliate with tariffs and quotas on such imports as French wine and Belgian chocolate. Warned a senior American official: "We are dangerously close to kicking off a trade...
...Gallery, where Dr. Cooper is curator of American paintings and sculpture.) Her catalog is a landmark in Homer studies. It puts Homer in his true relationship to illustration, to other American art and to the European and English examples he followed, from Ruskin to Millet; its vivacity of argument matches that of the paintings. She has brought together some 200 watercolors--almost a third of Homer's known output. It is a wholly delectable show, and it makes clear why watercolor, in its special freshness and immediacy, gave Homer access to moments of vision he did not have...
...threat of retaliation is immoral and a "defense that really defends" is benevolent, an eerie echo of Kosygin's rebuttal to McNamara at Glassboro. Proponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative charge that the Soviet offensive buildup proves that the U.S.S.R. never really accepted the logic of McNamara's argument and has violated the spirit (as well as the letter) of the SALT agreements...