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...less impressive, e.g., Harvey Cox at the Divinity School, Robert Coles in psychiatry, Martin Feldstein in economics. "The critical mass of talent there is stunning," says Chancellor Joseph Duffey of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Faculty ideologies range from the Marxism of Historian John Womack to Galbraith's liberalist economics to the conservative political science of James Q. Wilson to the libertarian ruminations of Philosopher Robert Nozick. "This," says John Shattuck, vice president for government affairs, "is a very dynamic and chaotic institution...
Ismael traces the evolution of leftist political organization from the Arab nationalist movement of the pre-World War II era--essentially an elitist, liberalist, Western-looking intellectual discipline--to the growth of socialist doctrine in the Arab world. He is careful to dissociate Arab "socialism" and "communism" from their terminological counterparts elsewhere. Arab socialists have often advocated private ownership (albeit regulated) as necessary for economic development; Arab communists have been wary of aligning themselves with communist states, preferring instead to regard Marxist-Leninist dogma as a malleable, practical tool for national progress and liberation rather than as an ideological ultimate...
...word to do evil, one denies the power of the word to do good. In effect, one denies the power of the word. I prefer the healthy fear and awe of the written and spoken word, evidenced by censorious zealots, to the wishy-washy neutralism of the liberalist anti-censors...
...Time to Be Sensitive. His theme was kragdadigheid, an Afrikaans word meaning unyielding strength, and he lost no time pushing through Parliament the laws that would make him strong. First came the Anti-Sabotage Act, under which anyone suspected of "liberalist" ideas could be confined to his home indefinitely, denied the right to be heard in the press, and isolated from contact with decent citizens. Then came laws empowering his police to hold anyone without charge-first for 90 days and, as of last year, for 180 days. He also gained the right to extend indefinitely the sentences...
...affairs. There is a vocal minority of racists even more extremist than he is, who accuse him of doing too much for the "bloody kaffirs." His regime is widely criticized, moreover, for its refusal to allow television in South Africa-a restriction in tended both to keep out foreign "liberalist" programs (such as I Spy) and to protect the Afrikaans language against the incursions of English (there are no packaged shows in Afrikaans). A recent opinion poll showed that two-thirds of all white South Africans want TV, but Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Albert Hertzog, one of the most...