Word: leftism
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Prolific coverage of national politics in the Reagan years was attended by muted leftism on the editorial page. According to Barrett, who is now a deputy editor at the Wall Street Journal, "There was a self-conscious effort to moderate the tone of our editorials...
...neither his legendary charm nor France?s lingering nostalgia for revolutionary leftism will give Carlos the Jackal much sympathy, says TIME's Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley: "Rather than representing any single cause, he was a roving terrorist who put his deadly skills up for hire...
Economic analysis should be the first principle of authentic leftism. Phony, obfuscatory, elitist French theory became the ticket to ride for an amoral, overpaid, overpraised coterie that is incestuously interconnected from Berkeley and Duke to Princeton and Harvard. These days, its pashas pretend to be doing "cultural studies," an amateurish mishmash of this and that, without scholarly command of any area...
...hope I'm making myself clear. This is more than just another Harvard guy hitting on another Wellesley (class of '69) woman. I've finally found that ideal female, that perfect combination of brains and beauty, warmth and wisdom, legs and leftism. So she's married. Details, details. He travels a lot on business...
...There should be limits to what we are prepared to tolerate," says president Stephen Balch of the National Association of Scholars, based in Princeton, N.J., which is dedicated to fighting lockstep leftism in academia. "But in a free society where people are going to get along, those limits have to be pretty wide." Balch is concerned that the very definition of tolerance is changing: more and more people see it as "requiring others to do the kinds of things that they consider enlightened." On many campuses, the prevailing standard these days would appear to be that of Marxist philosopher Herbert...