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...While some may deem this reconciliation utopian, what is truly far-fetched is the insistence that violence can beget peace—the assertion that the elimination of “terrorists” is literally achievable. Has recent history not made clear that all the illegitimate wars, all the indiscriminate bombings, all the illegal torture, produce only retaliatory madness? Until progressives can mobilize against policies that see the solution to terror mostly in its more effective application, we are destined to live and relive the barbarity of the present...
...Those engaged in the pursuit of truth may, at points, deem it necessary to affirm propositions likely to offend or contradict popular opinion. They deserve our society’s protection to shield them from impulsive legal sanction, enacted by a bestirred populace. The United States is not Socrates’s Athens—we allow our philosophers to pursue truth with impunity, even if we do not always honor them. The roused passions of the mob should not infringe upon the liberty of the intellect...
...said yesterday that books should never fall under such censorship. “To censor is to shut down a child’s mind,” she said in a telephone interview yesterday. Chadwick, who has worked with schools on teaching books that some people deem as too controversial, added that thought-provoking books don’t actually cause the problems that some people fear they...
...very large gap between recognizing how addiction looks on a brain scan and developing therapies that are effective enough to safely abolish addictive behavior. Once a safe and effective candidate drug is discovered, a minimum of five years is needed before the Food and Drug Administration can deem it safe to administer to millions of addicts. We are at least a decade away from even starting such trials. Addiction is a side effect of the positive evolutionary pressures to respond to pleasurable stimuli by seeking repeat stimulation. Alcoholics Anonymous is one form of therapy that we can depend...
...mail to The Crimson, a Facebook representative did not comment on the anti-Islam group, but provided a link to the site’s “Terms of Use” page, which forbids users from posting “any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.” Ola Aljawhary ’09, the Islamic knowlege officer of the Harvard Islamic Society, said she believes that the attention paid...