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Previous “Big Questions” have included “What does it mean to make the most of our time at Harvard?” and “How do we reconcile our moral consciences with our shopping carts?” and have included speakers ranging from former lecturer on History and Literature Tim McCarthy ’93 to the group of visiting students from Tulane...
This is the question Jay McInerney addresses in his novel, “The Good Life.” The answer he seeks—the novel’s perplexing moral core—lies at the end of an exploration of individual human responses to the tragedy that shattered thousands of lives and transformed a nation...
...protagonists’ predicament, then, lies in the difficulty of reconciling perceived moral obligations with all-consuming emotional desire. This dilemma arises out of Luke and Corrine’s inability to satisfy the disparate claims exerted on them by their pre-9/11 and post-9/11 lives, as well as out of their unwilling yet inevitable subjection to a “past [that] always catches up with [them...
This is the treacherous moral ground of inner-city America, where communities from Boston to Milwaukee are looking for ways to combat a rising culture of witness intimidation. Despite a dip in 2004, national homicide rates have increased since 2000, and in some towns it is as difficult as ever to prosecute shootings and murders. Prosecutors say that the nationwide popularity of Stop Snitching T shirts is proof positive that thugs in some parts of the country continue to control the streets. Whether out of fear or a deep allegiance to the code of silence, witnesses simply aren't talking...
...Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors, bludgeoning the member states of the European Union into taking seriously their promise to forge an ever closer union; Václav Havel, insisting that Europe was a single moral and political space that should never again be divided into a free West and an oppressed East. They don't make them like that anymore, of course, and there is a conventional explanation why. In the 50 years after World War II, the state of Europe demanded men and women...