Word: groupthinkers
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...resigned. While we are glad that Harper found the courage to resign when his disagreements with the other members of the Corporation reached such a point that no common ground could be found, it is profoundly worrying that the Corporation may soon be swallowed up in a morass of groupthink...
...operation, which impede external critique, make vigorous internal critique imperative. Especially now that University President Lawrence H. Summers has had a role in appointing the majority of the current members of the Corporation, each new member must be selected with an eye to shaking off the sluggish haze of groupthink that can so easily envelop and consume groups of people...
Nothing allows women’s studies to claim exclusivity by virtue of its concentrators’ special training in feminist theory. Indeed, that women’s studies is clearly endangered by groupthink (because it lacks any semblance of ideological balance in its readings) is all the more reason to subject what it produces to examination by a larger, more critical body of academics...
...Connerly, the black campaigner against affirmative action, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, public servants like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and a whole bevy of neoconservative thinkers have embraced a color-blind politics that makes a sincere effort to reach out to minorities. In opposition to the racial groupthink of the far left and the bigotry of the far right, this conservatism has sought to uplift individuals regardless of race or background. For these conservatives, treating all people as equal citizens regardless of race has come to mean repudiating both old-style racism and the reverse racism of affirmative...
...heretofore unstaged end. Conspiracy re-enacts the 90-minute meeting in which silky-voiced SS bureaucrat Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) gently bullies a roomful of Nazi functionaries into accepting the Final Solution as a fait accompli. A bloodless yet brutal testament to the violence of euphemism and groupthink--eerily indistinguishable from any middle managers' meeting--it is the banality of evil brought unignorably to life...