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...minority activists at Harvard, who are having an equally difficult time rousing the administration. But in case it starts catching on, we should realize that Ethnic Studies is not only a bad idea, it's a wrong idea. Simply, and in order of severity, Ethnic Studies is redundant, narrow, ignorant of history, perverse, and inimical to the very idea of a liberal arts education...
Sneider is right in saying that it is a "long road" to racial harmony. However, as much as increasing awareness of students is part of the solution, so is removing the ignorance and narrow-mindedness that still exists on campus...
...concealed that police posted on the property did not suspect it was there, the room could be reached only by using a block and tackle to lift a 200-lb. concrete trapdoor hidden beneath a carpet. Then it was necessary to climb down a 7-ft. ladder to a narrow passage that led to the mini-dungeon. Though it had only a camp toilet, the room was equipped with ventilation and a closed-circuit TV that enabled Esposito to keep an eye on his living quarters upstairs...
...case is easy. Only a few years ago, the man was selling Mein Kampf from his legislative office. The hard case is Buchanan. An affable and engaging man, a man of proven political courage and loyalty, he has taken to trafficking in nativism, authoritarianism, isolationism and anti-Semitism. The narrow and angry conservatism that Buchanan represents does not just violate the optimistic, expansive spirit of Reaganism. It is the surest ticket back to the intellectual and political marginality in which conservatism languished before Buckley began cleaning up the movement four decades...
...backfire because historians may judge harshly a man who has tried so hard to second-guess them. Bush's efforts to prewrite the historical chronicles have been too blatant, too public. His attempts to seem statesmanlike instead paint the picture of the antithesis of a statesman: a politician too narrow in spirit to move beyond himself...