Word: dogma
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...latest catchphrase on college campuses: the civil-military gap. With Millennials embracing national service in droves, more students around the country are questioning the Vietnam-era dogma that drew a bright line between the Peace Corps and the War Corps. Borrowing a page from the Greek historian Thucydides, who observed that "a nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors has its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools," many of today's students are pushing for Sparta to make more inroads into Athens. By uniting the best students and the best...
...standard-bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance like a biblical plague. It inculcates its devotees with a fanatical certainty in the verity of its dogma and the simultaneous disdain for all alternative dogma. Of the great religions, only Christianity and Islam can rival the enthusiasm of its proselytizing efforts...
This new study defies the established dogma in the field of stem cell research, which previously assumed that all stem cells divide once every two to four weeks...
...Democrats have broken the reign of the Republican "corporatocracy" and throttled the neocon New American Century in favor of the ancient Oriental wisdom of peaceful coexistence of freedom and order. The recent Republican ineptness in matters foreign and domestic has jolted us into the revelation that conservative dogma has been largely naive and misguided, and the wise course into the future is progressive. Roger Steed, Dayton, Ohio...
...university professors today as evidence for their case, failing to differentiate correlation from causation. According to research, not only do most people form their political views by age 15, but also students are more affected by the media and their peers than by their professors. But disproving this conservative dogma does not eradicate the resentment that feeds it—a resentment born out of political frustration with no productive (not to mention logical) end. Nor does it prevent the measures this dogma engenders, including calls for universities to hire only “apolitical” faculty members...