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More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value-free research...
...kept up the noise but lost the content. Sometimes it tried to club people into oblivion, deaden their senses (great with quaaludes). Or it tried to take people into an abstract other-world, a zillion steps past mere escape. Or it turned the great strength of the music--its implicit threat to the existing order--into a parody of itself, dressing up in paint and feather boas...
...agricultural nations with excess production potential can buffer the hungry and increasingly populous nations through donations of food grains on an ever increasing scale has finite limitations. Already there is some evidence that the people of developed nations cannot indefinitely accept the progressively higher taxes and reduced living standards implicit in continuing large-scale and growing foreign...
...conflict between radical and orthodox social science comes down, in one sense, to the radicals' wish to make explicit what they believe has always been implicit: that social science and social scientists are part of the society they live in, and that interaction between society and the university flows more than one way. To the radicals John Dunlop's shuttling between Cambridge and Washington to make clear to former President Nixon that wage and price controls were a fine thing was evidence of both the university's influence on the society's conservative leader and the conservative society's influence...
Though I agree that more uniform and sensible firearms laws are required, I must take strong exception to most of the assumptions implicit in your story "Battle Against...