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Black and white: the phrase suggests two polar opposites and a debate that can be boiled down into simple, irreconcilable positions. In an American context, given the country??s long history of racial division, the phrase has more loaded associations. So vast is this rift that our discourse on race has assumed a corresponding dichotomy: current discussions about race inevitably consist of “for” or “against” arguments about a limited number of policy topics. An intellectual who refuses to bow to these seemingly rigid dualities, then, both replenishes...
...counter it. “A significant part of our society,” she says, “believes that since laws have been put in place to ‘equalize’ things, everyone has equal opportunity.” Indeed, Loury explains that since our country??s laws (as well as its ideals of freedom, democracy and equal opportunity) condemn racism, many Americans see policies that explicitly take race into account as unnecessary, or even as a sort of “reverse racism.” At this point, the popular discourse...
...Iranian regime violently suppresses democratic movements among its country??s youth, and works to develop advanced nuclear capabilities—using North Korean technology, in many cases—for its warheads...
Crimson sophomore sensation Jesse Jantzen—ranked No. 8 in the country??pinned his opponent in the 149-lb. class, Milo Adams. Jantzen took down Adams early in the first period, turning him and pinning before two minutes had passed...
This philosophy has guided Zinn—79-year-old professor emeritus of history at Boston University and one of the country??s most respected and popular lecturers and activists—into a career comprised of truth-seeking and story-telling. Zinn started out as a shipyard worker and joined the Air Force at 21. Later, he began to ask himself “troubling questions” about the war, and soon became involved in the southern civil rights movement. His People’s History of the United States has become a bestseller...