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Perhaps, in an ideal world, Bush would be right. Unfortunately, in practice, faith-based programs impart an implicit bias in their messages, methods, and interaction with those they help. They cannot help it. After all, most of these groups hire employees only of their own creed (a practice which Bush supports...
...moral complexities My Jim purports to expose are already present in Huck’s own narrative. While Rawles has provided a reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book, her “nuanced critique” articulates few moral problems that weren’t already implicit in the work of her forbearer. The agonistic endgame, the technique of recalling a predecessor’s work with the aim of unsettling or revising it, is at least as old as Ovid’s Heroides. My Jim is an effort in good faith...
...Implicit in the recent discussion of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks is a debate over the nature of the presidency of Harvard. One view is that our president should be a pleasant figurehead who presides over a growing endowment and speaks donation-related platitudes. The other view, which I favor, is that our president ought to be an active intellectual, someone who participates fully in the scholarly life, engages in academic debates, and sometimes even throws out hypotheses that are wrong...
Banaji wrote in an e-mail from India yesterday that “the implicit, not to mention explicit, stereotype associating math with male has been demonstrated time and again to affect women’s performance on math and their attitudes toward math...
...likely to be rejected. To receive a postdoctoral fellowship, in one Swedish study, an applicant needed to publish 2.5 times as many papers if she was a woman. One of the biggest effects in the research of another Harvard colleague, [Cabot Professor of Social Ethics] Mahzarin Banaji, is the implicit prejudice that associates men with the workplace and women with domestic pursuits. More research is always welcome, but the evidence for gender prejudice and gender discrimination is overwhelming...