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With a chorus of critics??some legitimate, some not—ready to call every strong stance Summers takes an Orwellian lockdown of free speech at Harvard, it is no surprise that he has since said little. No one likes to be castigated as a Stalin of the academy. But his silence has been worse. Any strongly-worded statement on the war in Iraq would be sure to stir up healthy debate and controversy, whether by challenging the prevalent anti-war mood at Harvard or by standing up to the Bush administration and the majority of Americans. Whatever...
Evolution skeptics are almost universally dismissed with an ad hominem charge of “religiously-motivated propaganda.” Yet science students and professors consistently fail to address the merits of critics?? arguments. They cannot answer the relevant evidential questions of: (1) what is the most compelling critique of evolution; (2) and on which points the evidence or arguments fail...
Four decades later, the arrival of “After the War/Before The Wall” at the Lincoln Center and the Harvard Film Archive reveal critics?? and scholars’ willingness to reconsider the once-maligned period...
...museum to bring 300 years of Russian history to life. Even more astonishingly, the film is presented in one single 95 minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous SteadiCam shot. Critical awe—from Roger Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics?? top-ten lists for 2002) —has followed wherever it goes. Russian Ark screens...
...lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) received the National Book Critics?? Circle Award in nonfiction last week for a scorching exposé on what she sees as the United States’ reluctance to step in to stop genocide...