Word: argumentative
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...studied and even created, now more than ever should we recognize the latent power of what we study rather than burrow in the safer insignificance of our ideas. The more we deny (or fail to appreciate) the political import of art, deconstructing its minutiae rather than debating its argument, the more, as Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04 put it in a recent column, we augment the mutually reinforcing powerlessness of what we learn. It doesn’t take a draft to engage a university more directly with the problems of war; it takes the audacity to make...
...Supreme Court, in 1981, upheld Congress’ decision not to register women—the argument being that since women were restricted from combat positions, they would serve the military no useful purpose in a draft intended to gather troops for combat...
However, the court’s argument is undermined by the success of women in the current American military and in the armed forces of other countries—particularly in Israel, the first country ever to conscript women. Since the country’s independence in 1948, the Israeli armed forces have drafted both men and women without any hindrance to their ability to fight and win wars—wars that, in fact, could not possibly have been won without women. For decades, Israeli women have served their country by working in technology, intelligence and other behind...
...when $150,000 is at stake, parents may not be convinced by the revealed preferences argument: that Harvard is “worth it” because other students—and their parents, presumably—think it’s worth it, too. It’s quite unlikely that students are learning significantly more at Harvard than they would have at Berkeley. So how do we know we’re not all lemmings, following one another into a ravine of debt blindly whistling “10,000 Men of Harvard...
While Klein's vision of a Middle East peace plan calls for Israel to abandon most of the settlements and the Palestinians to give up the right of return, a just peace must also involve recognition by Israel that, contrary to its argument that Palestinian civilians left voluntarily, Israel forcibly expelled them from their homes in 1948. Israel must also give the Palestinians some form of compensation. MAHA MUNAYYER Little Falls...