Word: humanism
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Fifty-five years ago, sex went mainstream. Since debuting in December 1953 with a snapshot of Marilyn Monroe gracing its cover, Hugh Hefner's Playboy helped thaw America's once-frigid attitude toward human sexuality. Playboy remains the genre's big kahuna, and its stew of titillating photo spreads, risqué party jokes and, yes, interesting articles was the original recipe for success in the pornographic magazine business. But the strange, seamy history of smut on paper neither began nor ended with Hef's brainchild...
...competitors aimed to stoke readers' prurient desires, and in winning the battle, they ended up transforming American culture. By marketing sex as a normal, healthy pursuit, Playboy prodded the country to dispense with "old-fashioned moral strictures on one of the most powerful of human urges," according to Hefner biographer Steven Watts. But their efforts may ultimately have been too successful for their own good. A nation receptive to porn and wired for the Web has been a dangerous combination for print magazines. With pornography comprising 25% of all Internet searches, according to GOOD magazine's estimate, magazines have seen...
...sense of community that can result from bringing students together around issues of social justice should not be mutually exclusive from the community that develops around campus parties or Harvard-Yale. As human beings, we have a responsibility to think about people beyond our immediate community, and we have a special opportunity as Harvard students not only to encourage our peers to give back but to shape the way they view their role in the world. Given that historically Harvard has churned out future leaders in every field, it is especially valuable for us to encourage our peers to think...
...brilliant at hiding its ulterior motives under the veil of national security. The last time the BJP was in power was by no means tranquil, and the party’s idea of fighting terror was passing a law that made the Patriot Act look like the Declaration of Human Rights, and then using it to specifically target Indian Muslims during an overwhelmingly Hindu-driven riot...
...Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, used his party’s anti-terror law to single out Muslims while doing nothing to stop their massacre during the 2004 riot in his state. This is a man the State Department refuses to allow into the United States for human rights violations. And here he was in Mumbai, implying to reporters that his party would have done better in this situation. The strange thing was, he sounded convincing...