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Harvard’s leading lady, Drew G. Faust, answered 20 questions about her new book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” at an event last Thursday. Unfortunately, FM couldn’t make it (and the questions were vetted in advance), but here are the 20 questions we would have liked her to answer. 1) Before we get started, we have a problem set to finish. So, what happens to investment in the U.S. if a report states that the government deficit for 2008 will be higher than anticipated...
...example, in an attempt to prove that “racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering,” he claims that before the Civil Rights Movement blacks had a higher labor force participation rate than whites, but after the movement, they had a lower participation rate. First, this participation rate does not equal prosperity. If participation in the labor force were the definition of prosperity, then black tenant farmers would have been defined as more prosperous than their white landlords. Second, though a greater proportion of blacks may have been in the labor force before...
While the two might seem to have some common ground—both are Jewish civil libertarians who consider themselves member of the left—they diverge sharply when it comes to Israel. Chomsky, a cognitive linguistic, is noted for his heated criticisms of both the Jewish state and American foreign policy, while Dershowitz has emerged as one of Israel's most prominent ideological supporters in the United States...
Chomsky: “Dershowitz is not only a remarkable liar and slanderer, but also an extreme opponent of elementary civil rights...
Activities: Hanging out with Matt, watching Matt’s On Harvard Time interviews, researching the effects of the Civil War on the role of women in the South, getting Cosmos with...