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...Effective liberty,” he argued in his book “Liberalism and Social Action,” “is a function of the social conditions existing at any time” that “signifies release from the impact of particular oppressive forces...
...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...
...while the details of this particular case are appalling, and the scam is the first - or at least first to be exposed - involving foreigners from as far away as the U.S. and U.K flying in for transplants, Indians are sadly all too familiar with organ rackets. In 2007, police in southern India uncovered an illegal kidney trade involving fishermen whose jobs had been destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A massive transplant ring in Punjab was also uncovered in 2003. Police there believe at least 30 of the donors, who as in this latest case were poor, illiterate workers promised...
...Russell feels that undergraduates in undergraduates in particular could benefit from studying the works of Nabokov in the intimate classroom setting of a house seminar...
...Socialist Party complicates matters. Long-time partners, Hollande and Royal separated after last year’s elections. “The Left in France is in shambles,” said Arthur L. Goldhammer, a senior affiliate at CES. “The Socialist Party in particular is deeply divided.” Goldhammer said that Royal’s bid for her party’s nomination exacerbated divisions within the party in the aftermath of her defeat. “She obtained the nomination [despite] the objection of the ‘elephants’ [who] turned...