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...manly Christian character,” which was propagated in the form of the daily chapel and which the liberal reformist Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished in 1886. Later, with the rise of science, the intellectual program came to revolve around citizenship and manly duty to society and state, but even this identity was lost during the 60s. The inclusion of minorities in the university system made the enforcement of WASP virtues both politically unfeasible and morally unjustifiable. Since then, we have witnessed a kind of moral dispersion. We now value excellence but don’t know...
...Doron Almog, a 2004 senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A British court later withdrew the warrant for Almog’s arrest in September 2005, the same month it was issued, on technical and procedural grounds. Machover, who holds dual citizenship in Israel and the United Kingdom, advocated the right of countries not directly affected by war crimes to prosecute suspected Geneva Conventions violators—using Almog as his primary exhibit. Under Almog’s leadership, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) dropped a one-ton bomb in a residential...
...birthplace, where the couple met in the late 1920s. He continued on to California—becoming an American citizen—and later returned to Harbin. Laurence was born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai just two months before Pearl Harbor. George was interned on account of his citizenship, leaving Polia to care for their...
...department’s immigration policies during a question-and-answer session. He did not address many of the group’s specific criticisms, but said that the Homeland Security Department should step up border enforcement, implement a temporary worker program, and make sure that applicants for citizenship have abided by existing immigration laws...
...those who are ardent secularists, should be able to recognize the increasingly important discourse of faith, based on commitment to deeply held values and principles, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. In the United States, we should be able to distinguish the discourse of faith from the discourse of citizenship, also based on commitment, but premised on a set of values and principles shared by people of all faiths and none. And we should be able to distinguish both the discourse of faith and citizenship from the critical and deliberative discourse of academic study and scholarship. The academic study of reason...