Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first teaching experience was as a teaching fellow in Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice" taught by Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. As a fellow, Ferrell assisted in Professor of Law Jon Hanson's "Corporations" course...
...NATO's core purpose. For 50 years, it's been a defensive alliance, one that never before waged war against another European nation, no matter how lacking in democracy, stability or human decency. They see Madeleine's War as the latest example of an incoherent foreign policy driven by moral impulses and mushy sentiments, one that hectors and scolds other nations to obey our sanctimonious dictates and ineffectively bombs or sanctions them if they...
...Because there are 62,000 people desperately clinging to life, some of whom will die if we don't have the courage to move the moral line--and hold...
...Language of Silence (Routledge; 277 pages; $20.99) is in a sense Schlant's response to that reticence. Formally, the book is a study of postwar West German literature. But it has a stinging moral premise: that even the country's most liberal writers of the period committed sins of omission when dealing with the legacy of mass murder. Schlant's evidence is eye opening. The late '40s, for example, were dominated by a "literature of rubble," which dealt narrowly with Germany's wartime suffering. An anthology of stories published by the school of writers known famously as Group 47 contained...
Jackson vehemently denies that he is blinded by the glib moral equalizing that afflicts some NATO critics, who seem to think that NATO and Milosevic are equally responsible for the carnage in the Balkans. But at times he seems to be trying to have it both ways. On the CNN show Crossfire, he maintained that NATO's bombing campaign "corresponds with the kind of ethnic-cleansing violence you see in Kosovo." But two days later he told me that he thinks NATO's bombing has served "our moral mission of stopping the ethnic cleansing." He adds...