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What's gone wrong? To some extent, Harvard students are just falling in with broad societal trends. We scorn religion, as Stephen Carter has recently written in A Culture of Disbelief. We are a "nation of victims" (Charles Sykes) that converses in "right talk" (Mary Ann Glendon). We live in a culture of entitlement with an ideology of self-interest that dupes us into ignoring what we know is right...
Policymakers can also seek to ensure the child's best interest in case of divorce. Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon has proposed a "children first" principle in divorce. Judges would first determine the best possible package of benefits and services for the children before dividing other marital assets or determining alimony...
...document delivered yesterday was signed byCarter Professor of Jurisprudence Charles Friedand Professor of Law Reinier Kraakman, twoprofessors who pressed administrative boardcharges against students for holding sit-ins intheir offices. Professor Mary Ann Glendon, whosits on the appointments committee, was the onewoman to sign the letter
...book Rights Talk, Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School argues that the nation's legal language on rights is highly developed, but the language of responsibility is meager: "A tendency to frame nearly every social controversy in terms of a clash of rights (a woman's right to her own body vs. a fetus's right to life) impedes compromise, mutual understanding, and the discovery of common ground...
Such skirmishes detract attention from the much broader role communitarianism could play amid the desolate landscape of American domestic policy. Who else speaks to the need to reanimate public service and restore civic virtue? Glendon captures this spirit when she says, "We are discontented with the orthodoxies of the right and the left. My hope is that there is a constituency in America for truth telling, moderation and complexity." Several articles in the inaugural issue of Responsive Community provide tantalizing hints of new ways of looking at old problems. Galston, for one, suggests a bold reformulation of divorce laws...