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...don’t intend to replay the argument against PetroChina or Harvard’s stake in it. The students who helped launch the divestment campaign have made a compelling case that the Sudanese government is perpetrating genocide and that Harvard, through its stake in PetroChina, is complicit in Sudan’s actions. You can find more information on the issue at www.harvarddivest.com. Most of the facts that divestment advocates cite are not disputed, but it’s worth addressing a few of the claims made by Harvard’s apologists...
...with me is on the question of Harvard students’ work ethic—but in point of fact, I never intended to suggest that Harvard undergrads are generally lazy. (Indeed, my classmates are among the least lazy crop of human beings I have ever encountered.) Rather, my argument was that Harvard’s combination of drift, lack of intellectual guidance, and inflated grades encourages a slothful and “creatively lazy” approach to academics—one that fits in neatly with widespread campus attitudes, because it leaves more time for the diligent cultivation...
...years, students have trooped to Louie’s to buy $20 30-racks of Busch Light and 10 dollar six-packs of Dos Equis. The prices were outrageous, but the conventional argument was that Louie’s incredibly convenient location was worth a premium. Cost-benefit analysis always gave Louie’s the one-up. Recently, however, Louie’s even more astronomical prices and the presence of other, more compelling choices for beverage-buying have made beer runs to Louie’s impossible to justify...
...Posner’s credit, Catastrophe does anticipate Gabrielse’s counter-argument. Posner writes that “a cosmic ray hitting a fixed target such as the moon will tend to scatter the nuclei that it hits, making it less likely that they will clump”—and thus produce strange matter—“than if the collision were head on,” as it would be inside RHIC. So, the fact that the moon has existed for 4.5 billion years without condensing into a tiny ball does not necessarily...
Princeton philosopher Peter Singer argued in a recent New York Times review that Posner’s argument on this point is “bizarre.” But upon closer examination, it seems rather intuitive...