Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority opinion ignores or trivializes the advantages of national service. Tangible plusses of a year of mandatory service would include drastically reduced expenditure on military salaries--at roughly $100 billion a year, comprising nearly half of the defense budget--which could then be diverted back to social programs; a more equitable military service; and an enormous unleashing of human potential on some of our most pressing social problems...
Furthermore, the majority opinion's minor gripes with mandated national service are easily countered...
Some people just don't like New York. Like pain or nails on the blackboard, some people like it, and some people don't. It's a matter of opinion, don't you know...
There are numerous other misstatements about Wilkinson in Nick Wurf's review. His opinion of Moonshine seems to stem more from his fantasies about The New Yorker than the book itself. Amie Wilkinson...
...RECENT EXERCISE in one-upsmanship exhibited by the Salient editors is all too easy to ridicule. The substantive point of the majority opinion is actually quite correct--Harvard divestiture from companies doing business with the USSR would indeed most likely prove an empty, even a foolish, gesture. Where the majority falls down is where the divestiture movement always falls down: If divestiture cannot be justified on purely moral grounds, it cannot be justified at all, because its results are impossible to predict; and if it can be justified solely on moral grounds, then there is every reason to support...