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...want our museums to foster the critical faculties appropriate for citizenship, or do we want them to foster docility?” Gaskell asked. “Which is the better safeguard of order and liberty...
With each chapter, Beard discards the unwanted pieces of his former life in order to strive for some higher plane of personal or professional achievement. Beard is “a man of science” with “an automatic respect for internal consistency.” He knows truth to be “impregnable,” but he also knows that he can abandon his old life in order to inhabit his own reality. Beard believes that after learning “the tricks of managing, of simply being” he will reach...
...reason people take food is that it is cooked, unlike pre-ordered HUDS meals, and easy to steal. My HUDS, a service that allows students to order bag meals that they can quickly pick up, is a helpful option; however, eating a cold ham and lettuce sandwich is a much different experience than eating a steaming hot eggplant parmesan sandwich. We are paying a hefty fee for our meal plan, with an individual dinner for a guest costing fifteen dollars without tax. We should be able to get the most out of this price. It makes little sense to drain...
...good solutions on the horizon. The conventional wisdom says that after years of spending without any awareness of our limits, we must now enter an extended period of frugality. Yet, in reality, these desperate times call for greater spending, as opposed to cutbacks. In order to reduce the sky-high unemployment that threatens our country’s present and future, to soothe the damaged and frightened national psyche, and to build a strong foundation for growth, the government must unleash massive public spending...
...This is not a solution borne of socialist tendencies or a belief in government as the most efficient allocator of capital but, rather, the clear realization that the government can employ people quickly and effectively. The first step must be for the government to extend aid to states in order to save the jobs of teachers, civil servants, and local employees such as firefighters and policemen. Such aid was extended in Obama’s stimulus bill and helped save a great deal of jobs, but with almost every state running deficits and with a few even approaching bankruptcy, states...