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Social Analysis 10, that wonderful utility-maximizing world where all markets equilibrate and labor-market discrimination is impossible, claims to attempt a value-free analysis of economics...
...violation that strikes at the heart of what this University is all about: "By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change." I suspect that we all kind of agree with this, but after Sunday night's meeting, I wonder if we all really understand the implications of this contract. Civil disobedience on the steps of University Hall or anywhere alse is valid--but civil disobedience with the intent to disrupt, to not allow someone else to speak...
Even if, sooner or later, there is an outright reversal of Roe, it will not make abortion illegal. It will simply leave individual states free to permit, regulate or ban abortion as they see fit. The probable result would be a national patchwork. Legislatures in six states have already said they will ban it. An additional 25 have passed restrictions that will go into effect if Roe is overturned. Among those considered most likely to keep it legal are a handful of other states, including California, Hawaii, New York and Washington, which were among the 16 states that permitted abortion...
...abortion becomes a sufficiently compelling issue, would unhappy pro- choicers defect from the G.O.P. in sufficient numbers to tilt national elections? Stuart Rothenberg, director of the political division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, says that if Democrats can shift the image of their party toward the center on economic and defense matters and then add the abortion issue, "they have the possibility of fracturing the Republican coalition." Says Democratic National Committee spokesman Mike McCurry: "We're thinking ahead. Are we in a position where we can plan ahead? I don't think...
...revolution is fixed in the collective psyche of the nation. Ask any Frenchman to free-associate: he automatically recites, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite." Then comes a torrent of violent images. Heads on pikes. Hungry mobs storming Versailles. Women knitting and jeering in front of the scaffold. Marat murdered in his bath. The zealous Saint-Just railing, "There is no liberty for the enemies of liberty!" And the battalions of Marseilles singing the nation's new anthem: "May the blood of the impure soak our fields...