Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the changes that the authors envision will take time to come, especially to cities like Cambridge. How fundamental a shift they are calling for struck me as I talked with Cole in a restaurant here. He sat, sipping a large Bloody Mary and philosophizing about how man is out...
Harvard libertarians also split with Ergo over its frequent sallies beyond the realm of politics. "Randians are too moralistic. They believe in absolute standards--Rand's absolute standards--and sometimes they get a little too strident," Donal Rucker '78, a member of the Sons of Liberty, says. In the thousands...
But that doesn't necessarily mean a constituency for a popular leftist movement does not exist. Maybe all it needs to make its presence felt is a coherent program and leaders with a rational, practical vision.
Wilson deals with the problem like a political scientist: through a cost-benefit analysis of the criminal's "decision to become involved in crime." He presumes that the criminal is rational enough to weigh the potential costs of an illegal act and will base his actions on the risk he...
Theories of deterrence have some relevance to a small class of rational law breakers, and certain violent offenders do have to be isolated. Nonetheless, shallow conclusions will only lead to greater inequities, and increasingly prisons will become cosmetics merely hiding society's deeper flaws. A frightened, receptive audience and a...