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...parochial thinking of higher education has been: If a smart kid (or his parents) hopes to make a splash, he or she is unlikely to do so at a small liberal arts college—particularly if that institution is so unambiguous about its political leanings and its adopted dogma. The jury’s still out, of course, on PHC students’ viability in the job market. But if students’ attractiveness as employees is at all akin to college officials’ predictions and the White House Internship Office’s numbers, we can only...
Decades of social-science dogma depicted the human mind as having few built-in features--kind of like a computer with no programs, a blank slate. Pinker, along with others in the young field of evolutionary psychology, disagrees. For starters, he argued in The Language Instinct, we have a genetically based word processor, engineered by natural selection. Among the other legacies of natural selection, say the new Darwinians, are such impulses as jealousy and vengefulness. So Pinker draws fire from those who ascribe all ills to the corruption of pristine souls. But evolutionary psychology has a brighter side: love...
Encouraged by the triumph of dogma over economic reason on the health care front, the Republicans are taking the battle to taxation. These days, anything goes when you’re cutting taxes, but tax increases are virtually taboo. Even reversing recent cuts is portrayed as supporting high taxes. As Bush told Congress in his State of the Union speech, “The tax reductions you passed are set to expire...Unless you act, Americans face a tax increase.” In the face of the $4 trillion of deficits the Congressional Budget Office projects for the decade...
...much from a reversal of principle as from a difference in emphasis." It is quite true that what, in the eyes of Deap Briggs, received the emphasis of the twinkle jocular has now become a commencement oration deeply serious. Yet the orator leaves us no doubt that a great dogma is involved that of our democracy. He is quite consciously subversive. He even protests against the old system as tending to turn there out all of one pattern, like Waltham watches or Ford cars". By and large, however, it cannot be said that philosophy has inspired or even tinged...
...American leading men in their 30s. Affleck's pal Matt Damon has had hits and flops, though fewer of each than Ben. Same with Edward Norton. They all bound from action picture to indie, as Affleck has--from Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) to Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl), from starring in potential franchise pictures (The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil) to doing cameos in films by friends...