Word: moralizers
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...Jackson are brought in to presume to mediate what should have been a private dispute. If brilliant Harvard educators, including Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, cannot exercise sufficient negotiation and conflict management skills to resolve a simple communication dispute without bringing in Jackson—whose own moral authority is now in question—then what message does that send...
Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr., who is the Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity, is another member of the philosophy department who was plucked from Princeton’s ranks. Scanlon arrived at Harvard...
...National Archives, MacArthur told the Army: "I am in most serious disagreement even with the minority view on the replacement of cultural property lost or destroyed as a result of military action and occupation." MacArthur's opposition had nothing to do with the legal, ethical or moral rightness of restitution claims but with immediate U.S. policy goals and growing cold war fears. Such a course would, according to MacArthur, "embitter the Japanese people toward us and render Japan vulnerable to ideological pressure and a fertile field for subversive action...
Secondly, the argument that Harvard’s refusal to fund ROTC programs for its students is somehow a principled “moral stance” is asinine. If the University were really concerned about supporting an organization whose principles conflict with its own, it should immediately refuse to do any more business with the Department of Defense: no more applying for grants, no more consulting, no more admitting military personnel to study at the Kennedy School or to be visiting scholars, and no more accepting funding for research. The fact that Harvard chooses to follow...
...East ablaze." President Bush has repeated his lectern-thumping warnings to the three states he has nicknamed the "Evil Axis." And the targets of his ire - Iran, Iraq and North Korea - have started firing back insults, North Korea raising the rhetorical stakes by accusing the Bush administration of "moral leprosy." But what has U.S. allies in east Asia a little more anxious is the warning by the notoriously skittish regime in Pyongyang that Bush's accusations were "little short of declaring a war" and that "the option to 'strike' impudently advocated by the U.S. is not its monopoly." (Translation: Stop...