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...Democrats—particularly young ones??need to embrace this mantle, and embrace it fully, both following its precepts and arguing for them. As Dewey wrote in “The Public and Its Problems,” “Thinking and beliefs should be experimental, not absolutistic.” The basis for social policy then becomes not a matter of sound-byte ideals, but a matter of establishing concrete correlations of cause and effect that depend on the particular and complicated history of each problem...
...certain willingness to suspend disbelief, to act entirely on impulse without any self-consciousness: As a child I was never ensnared by inhibitions or concerns about how my behavior would look. And my worldview was completely different. The very mundane was full of possibilities—sometimes terrifying ones??and I was never bored. But because discussing one’s childhood always feels intensely personal, the quiet death of adventure stories, talking animals, and palpable magic feels like an exclusively personal phenomenon. Yet experiences of imagination-loss and general disenchantment are rampant. A slew of recent popular...
...policy-restricting interactions but where “pharmaceutical representatives are not allowed to interact with students according to the administration” received the C+ grade. Of the 116 schools rated, 13 schools were rated higher than HMS, 23 received the same grade, and 80 were given lower ones??including 40 medical schools that got grades of F for having no policy, no plans to form a policy, or because the school actively promotes interaction with industry representatives. AMSA gave five medical schools, including those at the University of Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University...
Schwartz noted later in an interview that students whose financial aid packages require them to contribute a certain amount of summer earnings to their tuition payments often do not apply to public service internships—particularly political ones??because they usually don’t offer salaries...
...moving, or considering moving, their presidential primaries up several months to February 5, effectively creating a national primary. The Democratic and Republican nominees will be crowned two months ahead of last year’s schedule. Though we understand the desire of many states—especially large ones??to have more say in the process of choosing nominees, they are making the wrong decision in moving their primaries forward. Their selfish decisions not only disenfranchise smaller states, but they vitiate the entire electoral process. We hope that at least some states reconsider. The primary election process...