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The first objection -- the threat of rampant militarism -- seems highly illusory. The doctrine of military subservience to civilian institutions has been firmly and irrevocably established in this their susceptibility to the charisma of Commanders-in-Chief, but no one, from William Henry Harrison to Dwight David Eisenhower, ever came to...
Within this compulsory system, however, some provision should be made for conscientous objection to a particular war, as is done in England. The exact form of such exemptions deserves careful consideration, but should be enacted along with the lottery.
What remains obscured by most arguments for the volunteer army is that it will not, for the most part, include the wealthy or well-educated. That is the critical objection. It means that class distinction, even without 2-S, would endure -- simply in a less obvious form. Do the rich...
Burgess defends Wake against the obvious objection that it lacks intelligibility: "A book about a dream would be false if it made everything as clear as daylight. If it woke up and became rational it would no longer be Finnegans Wake." True enough, but a more serious charge is that...
The moral attitude of the Wellelsey girl appears relativistic and sometimes self-contradicting. Three-quarters of these girls would not smoke marijuana, while almost nine-tenths have never smoked it. Most girls who refused to smoke it declared they had no curiosity about marijuana. On the other hand, only 40...