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...history is not a quest for moralistic lessons that great people can later draw on as inspiration for their own feats. It is the quest for the truth of what happened in the past. Great people tend to draw their own lessons. Mukunda's jingoistic interpretation of the American ideal obscures this quest for truth and limits it to the American sphere of intellectual tradition. Martin Luther King drew lessons from Ghandi as well as Lincoln, yet this does not require that everyone study Indian history. Mukunda's misplaced emphasis on the unique and especially worthy moral truth of America...
...uses to justify an American history requirement can be used to justify studies in philosophy, ethics, classics, economics, or any other discipline that "would be nice" for students to know. Ultimately, America is about letting people make their own choices, and here at Harvard we can most respect that ideal by studying what interests or benefits us most...
...high rents and bad parking, and HarvardSquare is not as ideal a restaurant site as thecrowds and lines would make it seem...
...Irish terrorists. We know even less about the guys they are trying to beat out of the box. Indeed--and this is the best part of the joke--neither they nor we ever discover what the box contains. It is a McGuffin raised to the level of Platonic ideal...
...received our freedom as a gift from our masters' hands. Ten years ago, Russia swore by freedom--and measured its worth by the availability of sausage. We had borrowed the concept of freedom from those who had succeeded at it, but we never realized that we had misinterpreted this ideal...