Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also raise questions about the certification process available in our society concerning the quality of what is produced the social "sciences" ("studies" would be a better word), journalism, education, and political discourse. The NAS plays some role in this certification process. I object to the NAS certifying as "science" what are merely political opinions and their implementations...
...methodology is to start from a concrete case, nail it, and document it thoroughly. I shall now document some of the things to which I object in Huntington's works...
...theprofessional military outlook were brieflysketched in the final chapter of The Soldierand the State. Indeed, the publication ofThe Soldier and the State, with itsunabashed defense of the professional militaryethic and rejection of traditional liberalism, wasitself evidence of the changing intellectualclimate." A scientist does not give an "unabasheddefense" of the object of his study...
...Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev head toward an agreement to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, the deal has become the object of intense controversy. Critics of this so-called zero option say it would "decouple" the defense of the U.S. from that of Western Europe: the less nato can rely on American nuclear weapons in Europe, the more it will be at the mercy of the numerically superior conventional forces of the Soviet bloc...
...housewife living near Johannesburg who did not want her name used: "If the leaders tell us that blacks can live next door, what can I do? If they are clean and not noisy, I won't object. But I hope my children finish school before the blacks are allowed...