Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes on to suggest that "there is an economic structure of racism that will persist even if every white who hates Blacks goes through a total conversion." If this idea sounds like heresy, it's only because we have bought in so completely to the dogma that racism is the inalienable, indivisible expression of a general will on the part of whites living in the past, today and in the future. The liberal contention that Harrington puts forward is that most of the racial inequality that persists today is not the intentional result of discrimination, but primarily an economic phenomenon...
...sighed in relief that there were no boldfaced terms to cram into an already over-stuffed memory, and then sedately continued reading, without further thought. And so would many a tired Harvard student, perhaps not realizing the ideological assumption lying behind that description. One hardly expects to encounter religious dogma along side a discussion of fish kidneys...
...tries to explain the forces ultimately behind evolution. It thus exceeds the bounds of observation and objectivity, and falls into the realm of subjective truth. By implying that no higher consciousness was behind the design of the universe, the book makes a claim that is nothing short of religious dogma...
Harvard faculty, not especially known for hanging out with undergraduates, could learn a lesson from the Israeli army. Because of their preeminence, our professors bear a special burden in leading the fight against the Forces of Ignorance and Dogma (FID). No longer can Harvard profs continue to coast by on the reputation, resources and riches of Harvard...
...BURDEN OF THE PAST. Russians already have a great deal of trouble reading the road map of their past. The notion of historical determinism may have been drummed into their heads in courses on Marxist-Leninist dogma, but they have never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual...