Word: moralisms
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...Since the course presents a debate between two different views of globalization, it gives students an opportunity to make up their own minds about some of the major moral, economic, and political issues of our time,” Sandel wrote in an e-mail...
...seven unionized security guards were laid off last year. And four female janitors, all union members, recently came to work to find their own jobs outsourced. They were reinstated only after large worker-student protests. If workers in these sectors try to organize anew this year, Harvard has a moral and legal obligation to recognize their right...
...actions in illegally granting marriage licenses to thousands of same-sex couples when he bemoaned President George W. Bush’s usage of the marriage issue as a political “wedge.” He had very little to say about the deeper philosophical or moral case against same-sex marriage, but rather bemoaned that it was an issue at all. This is the cheapest sort of intellectual cop-out, and just another symbol of the increasing poverty of our public discourse. In reality the “wedge issues” are important enough that attempts...
Among the long list of topics labeled as “wedge issues” by either party are national health care, abortion, illegal immigration, school prayer, gay marriage, stem cell research, and virtually any other moral or social issue worth mentioning. What do these issues have in common? Only that they offer one party a clear electoral advantage. As we should all by now be aware, “wedge” is politico-speak for “an issue which hurts our party and helps the other one.” Crying “wedge?...
Alternately, usage of the word “wedge” carries a somewhat darker connotation than mere political advantage-seeking. This is the current of thought that suggests politicians are trying to distract voters from the important economic issues at hand with dramatic and irresolvable moral questions, questions that government really has no business associating itself with in the first place...