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This was evident in a heated e-mail chain that circulated on the Cabot-open mailing list early Tuesday morning. Titled "Is there a right to watch porn?", the thread debated the moral, ethical, and economic grounds of pornography. We've got a run-down on the action...
However, Goodman’s sources betray the murkier moral landscape of the era of high imperialism—the book’s subtitle, “One Man’s Battle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness,” makes explicit allusion to Joseph Conrad’s famous novella, especially apt given the fact that Conrad and Casement met in 1889 in the Congo Free State. Casement’s own description of Arana recalls “the unseen presence of victorious corruption” that Marlow senses...
...raise funds, but one can buy a t-shirt alone. “Harvard for Haiti” filled Sanders Theatre as successfully as the convocation for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54, or the first lecture of the popular course Moral Reasoning 22: Justice...
...This is a conversation for people who already decided on moral grounds to hate porn or for people who are interested in batting around the intellectual ball,” he said. “And why everyone else is at home watching porn...
...part, Ryan considers balancing the budget a moral imperative. "Do we want to reclaim and renew the American idea, where the role of government is to promote equal opportunity?" he asks. "Or do we want to replace that with a more Western European notion of a welfare state, where the role of government is to equalize the results of people's lives?" Ryan, not surprisingly, is an Ayn Rand acolyte - he once cited her as the thinker who spurred his pursuit of public service. And while he says he does not subscribe to Rand's objectivist philosophy, he shares...