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...doesn’t offer the communal experience of dancing (or swaying) with fellow concertgoers. Like the paintings and sculptures in the rest of the building, the MFA’s concert series fosters private appreciation of art. The artists–here, musicians–have the freedom to create their music without the distraction of rowdy, drunken crowds pressing up to the stage. It’s almost a live performance in a vacuum...
...worthwhile academic experience. And these students can hardly be blamed for it: they are each the victim of their peers, responding to perceived pressures, beholden to the whims of employers, graduate schools, and other ends which trivialize the integrity of their academic journey. Students currently have the freedom to take a wide range of elective classes, and if concentration requirements are reformed or reduced, then students will have all the more opportunity to pursue other courses freely. Adding to a student’s jam-packed schedule six courses for a secondary field in addition to the twelve...
...restrictions on immigration has given me some cause for hope. While the revolution—or anything like it—has not come, the people do seem to be outraged. Immigrant students and their allies are marching out of schools across the country to demand respect and the freedom to pursue their American dreams.First, the problem. Most of the press coverage surrounding the student protests portrays them as a response to two particularly radical proposals: one that would make simply being an illegal immigrant a felony and another that would throw the book at employers who hire undocumented workers...
...spoke of reconnecting Africans who had been brought to the west because of the trans-Atlantic slave trade with the Africans currently in the continent. “There is no country in Africa that needs to be free. What we need to do now is consolidate our freedom,” Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe said in the documentary. “We must go a much further distance in uniting ourselves economically.” Blake drew parallels between the founders of the AU and the Continental Congress of the United States, as well as student advocates...
...monopolization of religion in the public sphere by the single version of Christianity promoted by the religious right.The alternative would be to silence both sides; that is, forbid Democrats and Republicans from bringing any sort of religious argument into the public debate which, at best, would compromise their freedom of speech, and at worst, would force politicians to make up phony reasons for why they feel a certain way about certain issues. As many religious politicians point out, it is difficult if not impossible for them to separate their most deeply held convictions into “religious?...