Word: preferable
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Which do you prefer: performing a student’s work or producing a work by a famous, off-campus playwright...
...someone would even ask. When I press, the student loosely strings together a series of standardized talking points. A form of blind liberalism has taken over our campuses, and it is massacring any form of intellectual diversity. Rather than assume their place in the (perhaps mythical) intellectual elite, students prefer to stick to pithy turns of phrase without substance or reason...
...your opinion, does the pleasure of dreaming outweigh the disappointment of reality? Do you ever prefer fantasy to the truth...
...some ways, I always prefer fantasy to the truth, because fantasy always pleases me and the truth doesn’t. On the other hand, there’s something delicious about getting your hands on a fact. Robert Nozick had a famous conundrum where he asked people, “If you could go inside a happiness machine and you’d experience a life of utter bliss, but you’d really be laying inside a machine with your brain all wired up, would you want to go into the machine?” I don?...
...Harvard Club, where hordes of undergrads turn over $160 each summer in exchange for bartenders who prefer ids to IDs, isn’t quite the last bastion of white elitism. A discussion course on African literature in the 20th century began quietly last Saturday...