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Harvard Law professor Martha Minow opens her book Between Vengeance and Forgiveness by listing the reasons why it had to be written and why it should be read: "The Holocaust and Final Solution, the Rape of Nanking, the...killings of Cambodians, the genocide of Armenians...the killings of the Hutus, the Gulag, the tortures of 'leftists' in Chile, the students in Argentina, the victims of apartheid." She makes a grim list of the genocides, violence, mass tortures and collective horror, nothing how our century is characterized by these and other atrocities and how it may be remembered more...
Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, on the other hand, thinks that identity politics is still an important issue. Her new book looks at identity politics with an eye toward some practical concerns, such as peremptory strikes in jury selection and racial categories in the census. Minow explained in a lecture at Hillel the other day that one must take a moderate position on group rights. Quoting a saying of the Jewish sage Hillel, Minow quipped that if we are not for ourselves, who will be for us? But it we are only for ourselves, who are we? In other...
...Minow's lecture was remarkably sensible for a Harvard speech. She stayed very close to her issue, using legal cases to illustrate her point. This is a winning strategy for a subject that tends to get silly very quickly. For instance, it is difficult to believe the claim of the League of United Latin American Citizens that Dinky, Taco Bell's Chihuahua, "is definitely a hate crime that leads to the type of immigrant bashing that His-panics are now up against. "The silliness here is not so much in the sentiment of the complaint, as in the overheated rhetoric...
This may not be such a bad thing after all. Certainly identity politics as we know it deserves to go away in a hurry, but a Minow-style concern for group rights is a subject that ought to stick around. The New Republic ran a piece this summer about the Latino-Jewish alliance. Needless to say, there did not turn out to be all that much of an alliance, just a coincidence of voting preferences. However, what came through is that the United States is going to be majority non-white sooner than later, and that it is going...
...Digest has been unable to exploit its greatest core asset: a monster database. Despite 100 million households logged in and millions of dollars spent maintaining the data, the company has yet to find an effective way to match products with new consumers. "They are wedded to the past," says Minow...