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...Bush Administration officials, who routinely unburdened themselves to the magazine's White House correspondent, Fred Barnes. Notes Michael Kinsley, a former New Republic editor who still writes the magazine's "TRB" column: "I don't think Andrew's appointment indicates any change. It confirms a change that has been implicit for many years...
...cannot be diverted from what is most important about this act of vandalism by debating whether it was a prank or an act of racism or anti-Semitism. The absence of some of the explicit evidence of a hate crime, such as slogans or swastikas, does not alter the implicit experience of many who feel the consequences of the crime most directly...
...wasn't explicit, maybe it's implicit. I have a rather reverential feeling about the Constitution and the judges who interpret it, so perhaps that was the subliminal intent...
...race of Sale's imagination is denied its commonality with the rest of humanity. Father Leonid Kishkovsky of the Orthodox Church in America, who chaired the National Council of the Churches meeting at which the controversial Columbus quincentennial resolution was debated, is one of those who question the notion implicit in Sale's work that evil was something imported exclusively from Europe: "In a certain sense this is patronizing; it's as if native indigenous people don't really have a history, which includes civilization, warfare, empires and cruelties, before white people even arrived...
Both share a fear of the mongrelization of white Western culture, with an implicit belief in the inferiority of non-Western culture. Both appeal to the ideal of tolerance in defense of intolerance. Both pander to anti-intellectualism, using the academy as an easy target for frustration over larger social change. Both are discomfited, most basically, by the erosion of traditional forms of power...