Word: mindedness
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The pride that many Jews take in Lieberman's selection is expansive and genuine. But the media's single-minded focus on the senator's Judaism is unusual, to say the least. The possible addition of another Jew to the upper echelons of government hardly seems like news. The Clinton...
Lieberman has a chance to fuse these diverse strains and overcome Americans' preconceived ideas about Jews, especially Orthodox Jews. Ironically, those preconceived notions may be strongest among the same liberal ethnic Jews who are themselves so well-represented. The day after the announcement, I asked a Jewish friend what his...
A mere either/or is simple-minded, however; there are nuances, and third ways. Companies like Boise Cascade work much more responsibly in the woods than they once did. Anti-logging zealots live in wooden houses; where do they think the stuff comes from?
Galen Hamilton and others think that the Clinton roadless plan emanates from a mentality of simple-minded authoritarianism. Washington, they say, is dismissive of the informed views of the people who actually live on the land, and whose lives are most directly affected: whose school budgets are devastated and whose...
Finding my role as a neuro- or cogneuro- scientist, I'm trying to sort out not only what it means to think, but from what vantage point I can investigate thinking in the most clear-sighted--or should I say clear-minded--way. This is not an effort very different...