Word: mansfield
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...Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 attributes the high enrollment in moral reasoning courses to a lack of similar departmental courses, saying many of the students in moral reasoning courses are not fulfilling concentration requirements...
...Mansfield, who teaches Moral Reasoning 13: "Realism and Moralism," says large courses also allow students to "be lost in a mass...
...addition to comparing Scott Singer to Jefferson Davis, the Society has linked Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 to Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke and Visiting Lecturer George F. Will to SS Reichsfuchrer Heinrich Himmler...
Neither I nor singer, in his letter, attempt to dispute the opinions held by members of the Society, nor call them into debate. Nor do I attempt to defend Singer, Mansfield or Will, who are quite able to defend themselves if they so choose. I do, however, denounce the historical comparisons as blatantly misguided, obnoxious, and abusive. No matter what he has said or done, Scott Singer has never advocated the establishment of an independent state where slavery might thrive. Professor Mansfield has never advocated violent lynchings and general hatred towards any man. And certainly, in none of his columns...
...millions, almost exclusively members of one or more of those minority groups, that suffered, bled and died under the systems of slavery and Nazism. To use flippantly the dead as a political device is to commit upon them a wrong as great, if not greater, than any attributed to Mansfield or Will. It undercuts the efforts of those who fight nobly for equality, and it dishonors us all. Jeremy R. Jenkins...