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...Where Douthat??s critique proves more valuable is in his discussion of the problems with Harvard’s current academic structure: there are major flaws in the current Core Curriculum, the academic advising system, and even the apathy of some professors and teaching fellows. But these descriptions succumb to an inherent bias. Douthat blasts the humanities for inflating grades—he argues that it’s a reaction to their “retreat into irrelevance”—and neglecting to prepare those students who are not headed for professorships of their...
Whoever the Sandrine’s guitarist was that night, apologies from FM. Douthat??s song and Modigliani’s impression were both louder than all hell. When Sarah Darling stepped up to present, she started by saying, “I don’t have that much to talk about,” so she broke out her viola. The guitarist should have just packed it up and gone home as soon as she drew her bow. The group exhorted her to ask the guitarist to stop, and he wisely complied. Sarah played variations...
...Jerry Falwell and David Duke. The fact that the favorable book review was published in a respectable mainstream newspaper like Al-Ahram again does not say anything about the position of the mainstream. If we were to open the pages of the eminently mainstream Crimson last Monday, then using Douthat??s logic, we would think that most Harvard students are profoundly ignorant of and biased against Islam. But, we know that columnists and reviewers speak for themselves, and newspapers often don’t restrain them when they push the margins of decency...
...writing in response to “The Moment of Truth,” by Ross G. Douthat ’02 (Op-Ed, Sept. 19). Mr. Douthat??s fervent patrioism and disdain for those who appear to be blase and indifferent to the tragedy is very understandable at this time and, to an extent, admirable. However, I disagree with his claim that anyone who fails to feel a “burning desire to visit a terrible justice on those responsible” is an unjust person...
...Douthat??s prerogative and right to feel that way himself—indeed, it was the right to express such strong emotions, among countless other liberties, that was attacked last week. However, to question the patriotism and sense of justice of any American who feels that violence of this magnitude should not necessarily be repaid with equal violence is as harmful as the indifferent attitude of those he himself rebukes...