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Grynbaum grossly distorts my argument when he states that I claimed the Harvard administration “voiced support for the Third Reich.” While many alumni and student leaders were anti-Semitic and sympathized with some Nazi objectives, my focus was on how Harvard’s actions helped legitimize the Nazi government in the United States...
...movies and video games. You kids out there would be wise to do the same. In Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Riverhead Books; 238 pages), the social critic and technologist (Mind Wide Open) makes a thought-provoking argument that today's allegedly vacuous media are, well, thought provoking...
...That argument, Johnson emphasizes, "does not mean that Survivor will someday be viewed as our Heart of Darkness or Finding Nemo our Moby-Dick." Rather, apples to apples, today's pop media are far more challenging than yesterday's. The Sopranos' interlaced plots make Hill Street Blues look like a Barney video. Nemo tracks many more characters and story lines than did Bambi. And supposedly mindless shows like The Apprentice are graduate seminars compared with '70s trash like The Love Boat, requiring us to parse webs of relationships, motives and strategies. In today's media, says Johnson, "even the crap...
Michael J. Arth ’08 said after the meeting that he believed few people on this campus would agree with Lurie’s stance, calling his argument a “largely indefensible opinion...
Divestment seems to be the new fad on campus. But much of the argument over divestment has failed to look at problems that are intrinsic to resource wealth in poor countries. In almost all of the cases—Israel divestment excluded—the movement involves divesting from a mining or oil company that is doing business with some objectionable regime in the developing world. This isn’t surprising; political economy has shown that rare and valuable resources like oil breed corruption. While divestment may be appropriate in some cases, for example PetroChina and Sudan, in most...