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...published works include Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Collective Choice and Social Welfare and Hunger and Public Action...
...since distanced themselves from it. Nathan Hale, a psychoanalytic historian, retracted his name, saying the petition had become "an excuse for indiscriminate Freud bashing." Another signer, author Oliver Sacks, said in an interview that he was distressed to be "linked to the angry anti-Freudians"; he has written an essay for the catalog that accompanies the exhibit...
...raise the question rhetorically, but unfortunately for me, I actually can relate to the pompous professor. My senior year in high school, I wrote an essay on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in which I boldly asserted that one of the novel's characters, Ras the Exhorter, was based on the real-life black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. I remember feeling the smug self-satisfaction that comes with crafting (what I thought was) an original academic argument. I excerpted the essay on my Harvard application. I wondered--only half in jest--whether it was publishable...
...never worked so hard on anything in my life. My roommate and I calculated that we had spent at least one minute for every word in the essay," he said...
Furthermore, certain criticisms, including Jackie Newmyer's essay in the summer Harvard Political Review, allege that following political correctness means preferring works by "non-whites" to works by "whites." Using political correctness as a cover to favor whatever isn't white only recycles white supremacy's basic assumption that one specific race should receive an inherent privilege over all others...