Word: explicitness
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...broadly based that everyone could support it, and the huge photogenic banner that overlooked the delegates' deliberations incisively described the base of support they aimed at--as "We the Democrats of the United States." In case there were still any doubters, the Democrats proceeded to make it explicit in their charter: the first purpose of the Democratic party is to elect Democratic candidates to the presidency and other national offices. It's the sort of party goal that makes the ideological diversity all the speakers kept praising easily attainable...
More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value-free research...
...novel arguments on a different level than the strongly challenging theories of Rand and the carefully consistent, scholarly analysis of Rothbard. Friedman explains his ideas in an entertaining style of writing meant to attract the college student. The major shortcomings of the book are Friedman's failure to make explicit the philosophic and moral base of his ideas as other libertarians have done so meticulously. Nor does Friedman answer the traditional questions about monopoly and poverty in a laissez-faire economy as completely as Rothbard does in his economic treatises...
...spelled out in a speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., on Nov. 2,1 regard the general outlines of an equitable peace in the Middle East as clear and even obvious: explicit acknowledgment of Israel's right to exist by the Arabs, including the Palestinians; Israeli withdrawal to the approximate borders of 1967, with United Nations forces patrolling demilitarized zones on both sides of Israel's borders; self-determination for the Palestinian people of the West Bank; a special status for the Old City of Jerusalem, providing equal and uninhibited access for members of all faiths...
This childish and witless retort was inspired last weekend by an equally tasteless cheer ("Harvard sucks"), and while both cheer probably contain some measure of truth, the explicit elitism makes the Crimson response far more offensive. In that self-satisfying chant, students and alumni--the most enthusiastic of whom were doubtless drawn from waiting lists--showed what is worst about Harvard...