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...translator, Bush interjected new remarks while she was catching up with his old ones. The message was blunt: liberty and religious freedom will make China a great power. But Bush also leavened his moralizing. "America has its own faults and problems," he told the audience packed in the narrow marble hall. "We are on our own long journey towards justice...
Allowing a military organization to disseminate American propaganda will undermine the already tenuous trustworthiness of the Pentagon, both at home and around the world. There is a fine line between narrow military necessity—where deception may be justified—and more general propaganda, where falsehood reinforces negative American stereotypes. This line is already blurry, and the Pentagon’s involvement will make it even more difficult to differentiate between...
...virtues of studying a little bit of everything. “The student who comes here hoping just to do economics or engineering is not making the most out of Harvard,” he says. Hauser seconds that thought emphatically. “We need to guard against narrow education,” he says. He pauses. “Seeing as Harvard is not MIT,” he adds...
...often the case that the most trenchant critiques of concepts such as “race” or “sexual identity” are coming out of these so-called “identity-based disciplines.” Also, the putatively narrow concerns addressed in these fields engage many of the most pressing and far-reaching concerns of the present, such as racial profiling, international labor markets and the politics of health care. Scholars have been drawn to these areas of inquiry not out of narcissism but because they recognize that some of the most vibrant...
Many scholars credit Matthiessen with first establishing American literature as an individuated art form in his seminal 1941 study The American Renaissance, which focuses on 19th-century authors including Whitman and Melville. While some modern critics find its focus on white male New England writers too narrow, Van Anglen said it remains influential...