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...former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is making a political comeback with the support of Israel’s fanatical settler movement. It is hard to believe that Sharon could be more moderate than anyone, but Netanyahu has forged new ground on the Israeli right. If Netanyahu comes to power??especially if he comes to power on the backs of the most right-wing elements in Israeli society—the peace process will be jettisoned back...
...with the terrorists.” Ever since the attacks, Bush has spoke in the language of a world divided, though the division is drawn in less ideological terms than the division his father made during the Cold War. Again, we find ourselves pitting ourselves against an evil world power??even if that power is a ubiquitous terrorist network known as Al Qaeda...
...They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the twentieth century,” Bush said. “By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions—by abandoning every value except the will to power??they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends—in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies...
...there been more support from the great bastions of intellectual power??like Yale—there might have been change. Some at Yale, like those who defended the Africans on the Amistad, did lend their support to the abolitionist cause. But as an institution, Yale took money made from slavery, celebrated slaveholders and even pro-slavery politicians, and educated others to follow in those steps. While Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, was telling students to reject outmoded ideas—like slavery—orators at Yale ridiculed him. In the wake of the Fugitive Slave...
There are some lessons in this for us. These episodes remind us that universities are often the product and beneficiary of the great interests (in this case what used to be called the “slave power??). As a result, they are often more likely to justify than to condemn those interests. Professor McWhorter is just another in a long line of teachers, stretching back to the leading pro-slavery authors of the 1800s, who believe with Alexander Pope that “whatever is, is right.” He may honestly, if mistakenly, believe that...