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Neoconservatives have been trying for some time now to incarcerate the term "racism" (and "sexism" too), but Michael Nolan's reply (April 20) to my letter (April 19) won't quite...
PROFESSOR of Government Martin Kilson played a moral trump card yesterday. In a letter to the editor, Kilson took issue with a column in which my editorial page colleague Matthew Joseph argued that Jesse Jackson lacks elective experience necessary to be president of the United States. Kilson labelled Joseph's views "neoracist...
Joseph makes a by-now standard case against Jackson. His view is less troubling to one favorably disposed toward Jackson's candidacy than Kilson's response. The professor's letter contributes not at all to any debate in which standards for those who would hold high elective office might be formed...
What--any professor might ask if Kilson's letter were a student's paper--does this cryptic sentence mean? Calling neo-racism a twisted-neurotic virus, while vivid, leaves the term undefined. Its essential difference from old-racism evidently has to do with those who propound it, namely "white-ethnic newcomers to the middle class." Could the reference be to Jews (like Joseph) and Catholics (like...
Like so many New Englanders, Harvard women's water polo Coach Chris Hafferty has trouble saying the letter "r" ("I pahked my cah"). So whenever he says the word "rookie," it comes out "wookie...