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Lacking tact on sensitive subjects is not a new problem for Summers. We hardly need mention his past troubles with members of Harvard’s once vaunted African American Studies Department, now much weaker than it was when he came to Harvard. We respect Summers’ determination to engage in academic debate, but he must always make the interests of Harvard the top priority...
Without getting into a point by point rebuttal of the obvious fallacies of arguments such as “nothing would likely prevent a woman from crossing state lines to have an abortion” (money comes to mind as one potential obstacle), I will mention only the most important point: the constitutional protection of sexual and familial privacy...
PINKER: Look, the truth cannot be offensive. Perhaps the hypothesis is wrong, but how would we ever find out whether it is wrong if it is “offensive” even to consider it? People who storm out of a meeting at the mention of a hypothesis, or declare it taboo or offensive without providing arguments or evidence, don’t get the concept of a university or free inquiry...
...public-policy group, says credit-card debt for Americans 18 to 24 more than doubled from 1992 to 2001.) The longer it takes to pay off those loans, the longer it takes twixters to achieve the financial independence that's crucial to attaining an adult identity, not to mention the means to get out of their parents' house...
...shrink a bit more each month. The loss now is more than 30%. I wonder how many thousands of people find themselves in the same predicament. The U.S.'s reputation has become tarnished by huge deficits, a climate of suspicion for non-Americans, energy waste and pollution, not to mention the political climate. As a young woman, I learned a lot in the U.S., and for that I'll always be grateful. But now, in my older years, I am very glad to be part of Europe's rising fortunes. Even though at times it looks improbable, the E.U. keeps...