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...helped organize millions of the country's disenfranchised by founding the Bahujan Samaj Party, which became the most powerful lower-caste political party in India; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi-revered for his advocacy of civil rights-for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...progressives when the opponent is Alan Keyes. But over the long haul, I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people, and so avoid joining a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy...
English: The big name courses are all next semester (hello, Faulkner), but there’s still some gems to be had this fall. Try Philip Fisher’s English 178x “Modern American Novel” on for size; it’s welcoming to students from all backgrounds, and has a reading list that spans the century, from House of Mirth to Lolita to White Noise. Anything Matthew Kaiser is teaching is always worth a semester (or five) as well; this time it’s English 154 “19th Century English Poetry?...
...WSGS 1122 “Chick Lit,” aren’t you? Good for you. Now round out those secondary field requirements with WGS 1154 “I Like Ike, But I Love Lucy” and WGS 1402 “Body Sculpting In Modern America,” and you’ll have a transcript that shines and parents who’ll wonder if you’re making this stuff...
...there any conceivable possibility in the modern world for the assertion of conventional heroism...