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...Because the "Nightline" controversy is less about that one show than about journalists' eternal belief that the golden age of their profession is always twenty years before whatever the present time happens to be. Critics of Disney contend, with some justification, that this controversy shows the dangers of media consolidation: that giant corporations like Disney will gladly axe a top news show to make money. But in the golden age that these critics appearently long for, before cable, TV news was the monopoly of three outlets, ABC, CBS and NBC, run by paternalistic white men. If that wasn't media...
...general dissatisfaction with the current workings of the E.U., a feeling that the club is unable to punch its weight on the world stage, an uneasy disconnect between the E.U.'s citizens and the bloodless and byzantine machinations of its institutions. Euroskeptics - considerably underrepresented among the delegates - contend that more Europe means just more bureaucracy and less democracy. With all that on the table, the overwhelming sense that something is missing might not suffice to forge agreement. The Convention's charge to create "more democracy, transparency and efficiency in the European Union" is noble to a fault, but it could...
Allow me to set up the following hypothetical situation: I am stealing thousands of dollars. What should happen to me? Some would contend that I should be incarcerated, but I’m not so sure. I mean, we have always punished people who steal, but that may not be the optimal course of action. To settle this question once and for all, I decided to apply standard incarceration calculus to this situation. According to standard incarceration calculus, if something is hard to do, like open-heart surgery, the practitioner should be paid. On the other hand, if something...
...causes of the racial divide lie within the black community itself: in the innate inferiority of African-Americans (as the infamous 1994 book The Bell Curve suggests) or in the community’s own inadequacy (according to the “black pathology” argument). Liberal thinkers contend that the government should take race into account because American society at large bears responsibility for the disadvantages many African-Americans face. Their policies on race consider diversity to be a desirable social goal and tend in some measure to compensate blacks for the economic, social, political or education power...
Harvard must also contend against Princeton’s trademark slow-down offensive system, which has frustrated far-more talented opponets in the past...