Word: monolithism
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...Deconstructing Racism. Finally, let's take a crack at that oppressive monolith of a word, "racism." I will just suggest a first, crucial distinction we can make, which is between contemporary and historical racism. As sociologist Michael Harrington explained in his 1984 book, The New American Poverty, "racism is too easy an explanation" because it implies "that the social and economic disorganization faced by Black Americans was the result of the psychological state of mind of white America, a kind of deliberate--and racist--ill will...
There seemed to be a pattern developing. To the extent that people knew us, they liked us, trusted us, believed us. To the extent that people didn't know us, they saw The Crimson as a biased, arrogant monolith. The challenge as a biased, arrogant monolith. The challenge we face now is to cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship between The Crimson, in general, and the community, in general...
Heading north from Detroit along Interstate-75 you'll pass through wide expanses of farmland and across the locally infamous Zilwaukee Bridge--a multi-million dollar cement monolith that took ten years to complete and has nearly collapsed several times...
...acutely ironic to realize that formerly communist Russia has already adopted full educational choice, effectively dismantling the failed monolith of bureaucratic public education. Beginning January 1, Russian parents will be completely reimbursed for sending their children to private schools, thereby allowing families to bypass the incompetent state-controlled educational factory. Monday's Wall Street Journal aptly notes that "a parent in Moscow will have more freedom to select a good school than most parents in America." This prospect is extremely embarassing...
Isaacson, an assistant managing editor of TIME, credits Kissinger and Nixon with transforming America's understanding of the world. Instead of seeing the U.S. as engaged in a struggle against an evil monolith, world communism, Nixon and Kissinger viewed the Soviet Union and China as traditional nations driven by competing interests; they designed U.S. foreign policy to exploit that competition in order to create a new, stable balance of power. It was, Isaacson writes, "a triumph of hard-edged realism worthy of a Metternich...