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Wright's critics have confused nationalism with patriotism. Nationalism is the uncritical support of one's country regardless of its moral or political bearing. Patriotism is the affirmation of one's country in light of its best values, including the attempt to correct it when it's in error. Wright's words are the tough love of a war-tested patriot speaking his mind--one of the great virtues of our democracy. The most patriotic thing his nation can do now is extend to him the same right for which he was willing...
...years on end, currencies can move in directions that seem to have little to do with fundamentals. They overshoot their correct values, in part because nobody is ever sure exactly what those correct values are. In this medium-term cycle, it's just as bad to have an overvalued currency as an undervalued one. Worse, actually, because it means a fall is inevitable...
...futility of its immoral and failed objectives. In the meantime, Hamas’ obduracy will be responsible for more Palestinian and Israeli deaths as it continues to boycott Israel’s existence in the region. Carter’s call for an end to the boycott is correct; he is simply addressing the wrong audience...
...careerist, vocational orientation” to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference” on display in post-millennial Harvard undergraduates.This letter, now nearly forgotten, always seemed to be born from Sixties sanctimony, but it was correct in its observation that socialism and political Marxism are more or less gone from the hearts and minds of Cambridge’s collegiate population. Why? The letter recommends a task force to locate the source of political lethargy, but on this, the anniversary of the Army-McCarthy hearings’ first...
...first scene of “The Visitor,” Walter Vale struggles in his weekly piano lesson to bend his fingers into the correct position. As his teacher departs, she tells the aging economics professor, “Learning an instrument at your age is difficult, especially if you don’t possess a natural gift for it.” In case the viewer hasn’t grasped the depths of Vale’s despondency by the end of these first few shots, they will soon: in the opening scenes, he gazes forlornly...