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...Western culture. What led you to investigate these concepts in your academic work? Matthew B. Kaiser (MBK): To be fair, these courses are not about sex per se. They are about sexuality, which is the intellectual and political act of experiencing one’s identity through the logic of sex. What I try to do in my courses is to try to avoid idealizing sex and fearing sex. 2. FM: What does your mother think? MBK: If she were a student I think she’d be the first person to study these courses. In fact, students invite...
...This program has powerful underlying economic logic, even though it might initially seem to be the creation of lunatics. When a home goes into foreclosure, it lowers the value of all the nearby homes. The sharp drop in home prices over the past two years has, as a root cause, the abandonment of properties, which adds to housing supply in a disorderly manner. After a foreclosure, a house is not sold based on economic logic but on the desire of banks to stay out of the business of owning residences. The National Association of Realtors said the average value...
...explores their legacies in this book-length series of essays, focusing on their abilities as writers and thinkers of the highest caliber. As Gopnik writes, "Literary eloquence is essential to liberal civilization; our heroes should be men and women possessed by the urgency of utterance." With their adherence to logic and observation, and devotion to thoughtful expression, Lincoln and Darwin - in addition to everything else they accomplished - helped kickstart the engine of the modern...
...keeps the show quickly paced, throwing gag after gag at the audience and seeing what sticks. His direction is smart in this way, helping the more clunky jokes fall by the wayside rather than linger. The audience barely has time to figure out a character’s twisted logic or groan at a crude one-liner before the play races off to the next non sequitur. Despite a script that at times seems more like a silly Mel Brooks slapstick farce than a clever Neil Simon fable, F.U.D.G.E.’s “Fools” thrives...
...encouraging the damning notion that nothing will ever change. This, of course, creates a sense of hopelessness - and nothing cuts down on humanitarian, foreign and development assistance so much as the jaded diminution of hope. The nation most in need of investment gets the least by the cruel logic that it is the most broken. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy that ultimately fosters indifference in the guise of wisdom. (See pictures of the fallout in the Congo by James Nachtwey...