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Thomas also shies away from a substantive debate about the merits of permitting free speech on campuses. He is a free speech absolutist, and comes down clearly on one side of the debate of whether academic institutions ought to be allowed to limit hate speech on their campuses. But he does not engage much with the philosophical issues at play. He finds absurdity in the actions of his ideological opponents, and is probably right on that point, but he does not actually argue why we should all be free speech absolutists as he is. Because he only asserts this...
...There ought to be plenty of fireworks this Fourth of July. But the best pyrotechnics show is likely to take place 268 million miles away, when a probe fired from the Deep Impact spacecraft is scheduled to collide with Comet Tempel 1, a nine-mile-long rock roaring through space at 66,880 m.p.h. The planned cosmic crack-up will gouge out a football-field-size crater and may be visible from the U.S. Pacific Coast and points west. It may also reveal a lot about the chemistry of comets, fossils of the early solar system...
...fallen in love with a phone. And not a cell phone either, just a plain old cordless phone for your house. Not that there's a single aspect of this phone that's plain or old. In fact, the Uniden ELBT595 exhibits technological advances that ought to put the mobile business to shame...
...standing patiently at attention after it is created, until eventually a population emerges, a civilization emerges. The civilization is both an accumulation of the columnist's ideas and of his being; he is his collected works. More: he has shown that collecting the works is the way a life ought to be built, column by column, displaying both continuity and changes in the structure and in the architect. He has shown the way to make and use a mind...
...chairs, have been neither a sideline nor a flashy aesthetic afterthought. The Miesian, Eamesian, entirely worthy benchmark Stumpf set for himself years ago was "to make a beautiful chair comfortable." He accomplished that by drawing on more than a decade of careful thought about chairs--not just how they ought to look, but how officeworkers lean and squirm and relax while sitting in them. Stumpf's Ergon (1976) and Equa (1984) are the two most important chairs, surely, of the past quarter-century, handsome, generous and deeply elegant. They are also ubiquitous: the Herman Miller company has sold nearly...