Word: heartlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college with eyes wide open, an eager, closet liberal at last free to burst from my ideological chrysalis and to begin my intellectual growth at Harvard, capital of the liberal world. I believed that the color-blind society was achievable. I believed that we could save Mother Earth from heartless loggers. I even believed that we could be entirely accepting of all opinions...
...discussion arranged by Jesse Jackson which followed the showing of the film "The Liberators," have forced Veritas back into my mind. What motto would Harvard have chosen for itself if it had been established in the past decade? "Truth" these days is not a very politically correct word. So heartless. So unyielding. I used to think that a malleable truth is an oxymoron, but apparently no longer...
...perhaps your reasons don't matter if you're performing good deeds. Only the most heartless and brainless of isolationists could fault the U.S. intervention in Somalia. If we still cling to the notion that our legitimacy as a people derives from a humanistic social contract and an obligation to use our power as a moral force wherever reasonable, Operation Restore Hope is simply right. We should find no defects in Bush's actions...
That all sounded too simple to be true. At this time of year, with wrenching pictures of starving Somalis on view, anyone who raises questions about succoring them risks being labeled heartless. Nor is there a strong case to be made against applying a moral standard to diplomacy: using military might in the name of humanitarianism is an estimable principle...
...conservative era" did not spring from Reaganite nostalgia for a mythical American Eden, or from a crass conspiracy of the greedy and heartless, but from international phenomena: the welfare state had grown too gargantuan, too ineffective and had to be cut back; it became clear that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...