Word: argumentive
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...1860s,” Richardson writes of “West from Appomattox,” because apparently the pro-Union states are now all Democratic and the current Republican states had either not yet reached statehood or were Confederate. The book’s argument is interesting, but ultimately a little too neat. If you’re looking for an understanding of contemporary political conflicts, Richardson can give it to you in just one word: Reconstruction. In the years following the Civil War, the Northern Republicans, which in new-millennium speak means Democrats, believed the best...
...still roughly what blacks represent in the population as a whole. So they aren't significantly underrepresented. In the mid-1970s, when nearly 1 in 3 major league players was black, many people, including some liberals and some blacks, complained that they were overrepresented. The argument was that too many blacks were being steered into sports, distorting the young black male's sense of ambition...
...that a women’s group inherently serves to “suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex,” rather than to create a forum in which women can come together as a community to build their skills and confidence. Caldwell dismissively acknowledges the argument that women’s groups are necessary because of the historic discrimination against women, but fails to realize that sexism and discrimination still affect women profoundly today. The current lack of women in top leadership positions at most major U.S. businesses shows that women are obviously at a disadvantage...
...Harvard the most important element in student success might be the ability to fail. When a small group of self-proclaimed perfectionists gathered at the Bureau of Study Counsel this spring to participate in a workshop titled “Perfectionism: A Double-Edged Sword,” the argument that I presented was simple: “You have excelled and made it to Harvard despite, rather than because of, your perfectionist habits.” The students expressed their skepticism about my statement, but seemed intrigued when I told them research has shown that perfectionist attitudes actually interfere...
...reasonable person could ask, What was the big deal? And I don't mean the lots-of-black-rappers-say-"hos" argument, though we'll get to that. Rather, I mean, what celebrity isn't slurring some group nowadays...