Word: argumentative
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Guseh also questioned the truth of argument from the con side...
...counter-objections: the claims that the humorous nature of the writing makes it harmless (“it need not be protested”), and that the writing is protected as free speech and free press (“it cannot be protested”). The first argument is easily disproven. It supposes that mockery, by being different from more severe expressions of racial ill will, is necessarily distinct from them. If this is true, then what taboo bars enjoyment of blackface comedy? The derision inherent in blackface, like that in “Gay or Asian...
...most compelling argument made in favor of growing the College is the possibility of adding more international students to give undergraduates more diverse perspectives on culture and scholarship. This is a laudable goal, but there must be a fine balance at Harvard between learning from your professors and learning from your peers. Striking that balance should take precedent over further “improving” the student body through internationalization...
...kind of Big Government solution you would expect from Old Democrats. But they saved his presidency by balancing the budget, getting tougher on criminals and ending welfare as we knew it. Today, with the exception of free trade (of which they are staunch advocates), there is almost no argument among Democrats on the principles of the Clintons. In Europe the doctrine came to be called the Third Way and acted as a model for Britain's Tony Blair and Germany's Gerhard Schroder. When George W. Bush ran for the presidency in 2000, his "compassionate conservatism" had more than...
What made Power's argument so bracing--and cemented its place as one of the decade's most important books on U.S. foreign policy--was her verdict that, far from ignoring genocide, three generations of American leaders knowingly and deliberately decided it was not in the country's interest to stop it. "One of the most important conclusions I have reached," Power wrote, "is that the U.S. record is not one of failure. It is one of success ... U.S. officials worked the system and the system worked...