Word: preservationism
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Border Conflict I read with interest Ishaan Tharoor's story [Aug. 31]. It is clear that a major conflict between India and communist China would pose a very serious global threat. Yet I share his view that the long-term survival of India as a multicultural nation is more securely...
The Common Spaces Steering Committee started with two Chairs—Dean Mostafavi and Professor Cohen—and somehow ended up with 476. In a university that prides itself on aesthetic preservation over centuries, this explosion of pastel has caused quite a sensation. The medley of eye-catching metal...
“Part detective novel, part scientific investigation, and part journalistic exposé with a dark, destructive love story at its center.” It’s a tough marketing description for even the finest author to live up to. Jorge Volpi’s ?...
But even as the Dalai Lama reiterated that he had come on purely humanitarian grounds, politics was very much on the minds of the people following him around Siaolin. Nearly a hundred reporters shadowed him on the long drive to the remote village in the mountains. After his prayers, they...
Some conflicts between Western values and traditional immigrant cultures will be easy calls, like footbinding, or East African immigrants who seek out doctors to perform genital mutilation on their daughters. Other issues, like burqas, are more problematic. Fundamental values, like gender or racial equality, need to be weighed against freedom...