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...which habitually block reform on the pretext of resistance against what they sloppily label "ultraliberalism." Such unholy alliances have characterized France's numerous civil wars. In 1358, the jacqueries (peasant uprisings), which gave birth to the modern state, united peasants against the nobility. The nobility, in turn, revolted to protect their privileges against the growing power of the state and the Parisian bourgeoisie, who wanted to create an English-style monarchy controlled by a representative assembly. Similarly, in 1648, the stone-throwing agitators who set off the civil war known as the Fronde ended up giving birth to the centralized...
...Scott Haig is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who has a private practice in the New York City area. Some names in this essay have been changed to protect patient privacy...
...judicial system. As he loves to assert, he has never been convicted of a crime. But a closer look suggests something rotten in the Italian Civil Code. With perfect timing, the Italian Parliament altered the statute of limitations and narrowed the scope of EU convictions to “protect Italian sovereignty.” Surprisingly, those changes also made Berlusconi untouchable. And emulating any credible Messiah, he comes to the rescue when his close disciples are about to fall victim to courts. Just last year, he presented a bill openly known as “Salva Previti...
...students who remain virtually invisible to students.All of his transgendered friends have experienced at least verbal abuse because of their gender identities. But it’s not the harsh words that get to him. It’s the fact that Harvard doesn’t provide institutional protection for people like him.Because of this, Eric hasn’t “transitioned”—in other words, he hasn’t begun to live full-time as a man at Harvard.“I think a lot of people wait to transition...
...qualified No is that the war has polarized us and precluded a bipartisan consensus developing with regard to policies that all future Administrations must grapple with in protecting us.The threat is real and it's all the more lethal because, paradoxically or not, it's driven by religion and nihilism and a civilization's very unhappy encounter with modernity. We must get beyond the venom and second-guessing and find common cause. We owe it to the men and women putting their lives at risk in order to protect us. We owe it to our children...