Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing legal or social system does not collapse because of assault upon it by superior logic. Systems collapse through their own inner rot. Corrupt systems do not collapse, only rotten ones...
...just intellectual bickering, but rather are battles against power structures that perpetuate inequalities and injustices in the social order. These are battles to politicize legal education, to inject debate about illegitimate hierarchy and oppression, about minorities and women and their relation to the law, into the calm logic of legal analysis--in more concrete terms, to get a Black professor onto the Law School faculty...
Regardless of the bureaucratic logic involved, the College failed to take the initiative to retain a uniquely qualified talent. This omission reflects a blatant disregard for both the instructor's merits and students' earnest and repeated demands for such a course as Wu was willing to teach. The refusal to take an academic seriously, not in spite of ethnic differences but precisely for them, is tantamount to an attitude of tokenism...
...their constituents' flight. Unfortunately, the outcome of all his soul-searching seems to have been the conclusion that the Republican triumph is due to the personal popularity of an over-aged actor who temporarily brainwashed the American people. Democratic failures do not run so deep after all, the logic runs. It is just a mood the country has gotten into, a stage it is going through like an errant teenager, and soon America will come back home to the Democratic Party...
...Framers of the Constitution. This is an attitude belittled by Tribe as a futile exercise in historical mind games; it is also important to Tribe that future justices not hold this illfounded ideal. Tribe is probably right on this count. His argument packs a lot of authority and logic, but Meese isn't listening. And why would...