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...that the reason you haven’t really read a book since, say, the eighth grade is not entirely your fault. After all, this is the Information Age, an age that values the immediate dissemination and processing of information, and that—whether we like it or not??has impacted the way we read...
Feminism is hardly the culprit behind the hypersexualization of young women. The goal of second-wave feminism was not??as Wagley suggests—to allow for the proliferation of sexually explicit media and self-exploitation à la “Girls Gone Wild.” In fact, most feminists, including Ariel Levy, would concur that the pressure to conform to a sexual script is a problem that ought to be addressed not by restricting sex, but by removing stigmas surrounding sexual behavior, which includes abstinence, promiscuity, and everything in between. Rather than blaming feminism...
...satisfied by a job well done and convinced that Obama would make the world right again. But in these troubled times, the man needs his movement back, to ensure that the change we believed in produces the world we want to live in. Obama cannot—and will not??do it without us. Real change comes from the people, not the president...
...description of the endowment can be a confusing one, because many people see it as something that it is not??a savings account, a rainy-day fund, a fully usable financial umbrella for the kind of economic deluge in which we now find ourselves. But it is not that at all: The money in the endowment is investment capital. It is money that creates a revenue stream just as tuition and research funding are revenue streams...
...These racial flare-ups were all the product of implicit assumptions about who belongs in a wealthy neighborhood or Harvard quadrangle and who does not??judgments made by police and nervous white neighbors—and the understandable indignation that African-Americans express when confronted with these assumptions. Gates grew angry when the cops come to ask him what he was doing in his own home because he, of all people, knew exactly why they were there...