Word: argumentative
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Green said that Harvard’s focus should be helping students learn to think and giving them opportunities for back-and-forth argument with professors and fellow students...
Furthermore, making a snap judgment to pull funding from defense companies opens the floodgates for divestment from other morally ambiguous industries. Coca-Cola and Nike are only a few examples; given adamant students and faculty, an argument could be made that nearly every company is socially irresponsible, that each is giving rise to societal ills in some manner or another. And on each example, there would likely not be a clear moral consensus...
...Clinton Richard Dawkins is irrelevant in the marketplace of ideas. Gould and Dawkins advocate circling the wagons against a common enemy, not meeting it in battle. This may or may not be a clever political move, but it has nothing to do with the strength or weakness of an argument...
...problem with the argument to simply ignore Intelligent Design as put forth by Jonathan H. Esensten ’04 is that it assumes that a powerful scientific group (the pro-Darwinian establishment) must be right simply because they agree with each other and ignore their opponents as best they can (Column, “Death to Intelligent Design,” March...
...wider neo-conservative agenda, insisting that the U.S. must do more to bring Israel into compliance with UN resolutions and rejecting Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's threats to Syria and Iran. Having gone to war on the principle of upholding international legality, the British public is unlikely to embrace the argument offered by Secretary of State Powell on Thursday that the coalition's willingness to go to war against Saddam should give it the dominant say over Iraq's immediate future...