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...Rather, studying history—like studying literature, philosophy, music, or any of the truly liberal arts—provides real moral edification. The great men and great deeds of the past, equally as much as its tragic figures and catastrophes, testify to the depth and richness of the human experience as much as the poetic fictions of Sophocles and Shakespeare. It is a richness that cannot be conveyed by the simplistic and narrow ideologies which are cloaked by the innocuous-sounding imperative of “global citizenship...
Brimming with bawdry and smut, Paul Verhoeven’s “Black Book” focuses on the sleazier side of World War II. And what guilty, brooding cineaste doesn’t like a little Nazi sex now and then? Because he poses the odd moral question, Verhoeven’s movie—his first filmed in the Netherlands in over two decades—isn’t entirely worthless. Still, he puts too much of “Showgirls” (his 1995 softcore porn hit) into “Black Book...
...diplomacy” in regard to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s “assault on civil liberties” in his country. “[South Africa’s] approach to foreign relations is rapidly undermining our international credibility and has all but obliterated the moral high ground we struggled so hard to achieve through our transition to democracy,” he said. But, Leon said, South Africa has also had several notable accomplishments that have allowed it to stand out as a “moral beacon” in the world...
...country. Being broadcast on the radio the way it was, Darrow did tend to make Bryan look like something of a goat, but then Bryan dying days after the trial made him a martyr.THC: If Bryan hadn’t died, do you think Darrow would have been the moral victor?EA: Oh yeah I think so, but there is that great appeal to all that ocean of people out there who want to believe in miracles. Darwin could be viewed as Lucifer, if they wish, denying them potential for their hopes. At that time creationism was hope, and Darwinism...
...course, assessing Imus' show is a subjective judgment, and setting these boundaries is as much an aesthetic call as a moral one. It's arbitrary, nebulous and, yes, unfair. Who doesn't have a list of artists or leaders whose sins they rationalize: Elvis Costello for calling Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger," Eminem for peppering his lyrics with "faggot," Jesse Jackson for "Hymietown," D.W. Griffith for lionizing the Klan or T.S. Eliot for maligning Jews...