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...propaganda.” In fact, it is quite the opposite. Drawing from scholarly research by P. M. Taylor, the main difference between art and propaganda is not that hard to spot: the first does not advance any particular course of action to change the status quo. The latter, on the other hand, presents a problem and also the supposedly ideal behavior for audiences to follow...
...more control over the individual schools than his recent predecessors.If professors take control of the search for Kirby’s successor and reassert their own authority over FAS, would that be a revolution?Rather, it might be more of a restoration—a return to the status quo from earlier eras of Harvard history.“Historically, the deans were independent and controlled their own fiefdoms,” said Andrew Schlesinger, the author of “Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience.”“In the old days...
...debate over the DADT policy. Harvard might be respected, but no one wants to listen to “the Kremlin on the Charles.” This marginalizes rational and intelligent opposition to DADT, and acts only in the interests of those who wish to preserve the status quo...
...having an even number of justices on the Supreme Court is not a new one. In fact, the Judiciary Act of 1789, which first set up the federal judicial system, established a six-person Supreme Court. And in its early years, the Republic clung to the even-number status quo. The lame-duck Federalist majority in Congress voted in early 1801 to reduce the court to five members. But when the Jeffersonians gained control, they repealed the Federalists’ move and kept the court at its six-man size...
Without the clichéd finale of brining in a deus ex machina, the US and the European Union have several ways to reach the climax in this story, yet all share the recurring quality of ambiguity. The first one is the status quo: keep pressuring and negotiating with both Teheran and the Kremlin, and writing large checks for opposition groups from CIA accounts. In a time of urgency, however, this might seem like a more long-term project than Brussels or Washington are willing to accommodate...