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...Senate Republicans did the right thing for the wrong reasons on Friday, blocking a popular but execrable $286 billion farm bill over an esoteric procedural dispute. In doing so, they gave up the opportunity to shower more money on farm country in a calculated partisan effort to embarrass the Democratic majority. Now both parties will spend the next few months - and maybe the entire next year - blaming one another for delaying legislation that deserves to be destroyed...
...farm bill is on hold, because Senate Republicans are more deeply committed to irresponsible partisan politics than irresponsible bipartisan policies. In Washington, this passes for good government...
...would think it obvious that a room full of serious academics ought to support such a non-partisan, non-confrontational affirmation of free speech and academic inquiry. But on Tuesday, the motion was tabled. “People with a broad range of perspectives” now cannot “feel safe” here. Even as I write these words, I can’t help looking over my shoulder for the pack of torch-wielding, PhD-holding barbarians who are doubtless closing in on me, hateful of my broad range of perspectives...
...encourage J. Lorand Matory’s expression of his “reasoned and evidence-based ideas” threatens the very core of this institution of higher learning almost as much as cutting off the UC’s party grants. By ignoring the earnest, non-partisan concerns of a humbly courageous anthropology professor, the Faculty have condemned us all to a future under the heavy fog of repression and hatred. Social lubricants be damned, we must build upon the wisdom of our classical forebears and proclaim that, at Harvard, there is truth in whining. Give us bitching...
...which the head of McKinsey, one Ian Davis, addressed the topic of "government as a business." We "must enter the dialogue on how to help resolve" disputatious issues, he recommends. Well, isn't that the definition of politics? But Davis rejects politics. "This is not a partisan issue but an issue beyond political stance...