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...faculty on-board because we find it easier to table and mass e-mail and recruit our fellow students, and because we can be a little shy about approaching faculty,” according to Hazlett. But he predicted that “faculty will become a powerful and moral voice for divestment right alongside the students...
...cycle of the "clash of civilizations," la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short, rarely have the famous words of Blaise Pascal rung more true: "He who would act the angel becomes the beast." What begins as a noble moral intention to bring down a tyrant becomes a political disaster and a gigantic step backward in the long, necessary war against fascislamism. A field of ruins...
...from funding the war in Iraq. McGovern also spoke at length about his frustration with the duplicity of politicians in Washington. “My definition of patriotism is to say what you believe,” McGovern said. “To be silent is not patriotism, but moral cowardice.” Student reaction to McGovern was generally positive, and he earned some laughs after a few jokes and criticisms of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. However, it was Patrick’s message that McGovern wanted those in attendance to remember...
...knowledge alone that a particular result is certain to occur” doesn’t suffice. Pain itself—not, say, eliciting information—has to be the animating motive.Bybee’s sophistries are threaded together with a kind of ghoulish moral imperviousness. He speculates that it is “likely” that a court would find that “electric shocks to genitalia” constitute torture. Describing someone being forced to his knees and kicked in the stomach with military boots, however, Bybee decides that the resulting agony would...
...what can they do about it? Human rights advocates always run into a number of formidable hurdles in addressing any crisis abroad. Many of us struggle with difficult questions about what exactly constitutes a violation of human rights and whether it is appropriate for us to be the moral arbiters for a distant culture. And so on, until we have plagued ourselves with self-doubt. Certainly, the unelected clerics of Iran depend on enough of us doing that. But those of us who are sincerely concerned with the plight of Iranians cannot satisfy ourselves through further abdication. It is crystal...