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...those days, Bush belonged to a minority of MBA students who were seriously disconnected from taking the moral and social responsibility for their actions. Today, he would fit in comfortably with an overwhelming majority of business students and teachers whose role models are celebrated captains of piracy. Since the 1980s, as neo-conservatives have captured the Republican Party, America’s business education has also increasingly become contaminated by the robber baron culture of the pre-Great Depression...
...comfortable with. The battles over technology law and technology ethics that are becoming increasingly common as people do more and more business (and therefore have more and more conflicts of interest) over the Internet all more or less center around the ancient question of how to make new ideas fit into old frameworks. Perhaps if we all think through our presumptive analogies a little more thoroughly, we can begin to clear up the clouds...
...United States’ race problem. Confronted with the quagmire of Vietnam, the rise of Third World anti-colonialism, American imperialism (under the benign name of Cold War containment) abroad, and the entrenchment of white supremacy and privilege at home as the civil rights movement attempted to evolve to fit a ghetto landscape and address economic issues, King grew acutely aware of the forces at work in the modern world...
...that we give King some justice by not sitting idly by as a more extensive and dangerous conspiracy to kill the true legacy of King is undertaken. Read A Testament of Hope, a comprehensive collection of King’s writings and speeches, not just the ones that fit into our rose-colored vision of history and quote King not just to talk about how far we have come, but also to comment on the long road ahead—with racial disparities just as entrenched, American foreign policy gone awry, and a vision of common humanity increasingly relegated...
...successful program because they reflexively oppose any increased role of government in our lives. Bush’s pitch sounds convincing, but partially privatizing Social Security is the first step towards phasing it out. The promise of a comfortable and secure retirement guaranteed by a government program may not fit into conservative ideology, but it is something the majority of Americans want. As college students, our retirement seems far away, but we must not forget that Social Security has been the most successful domestic program since its creation. If we do not act to protect Social Security now, the retirement...