Word: rationale
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That is too bad, because it means that too many debates on campus have become reminiscent of the worst of the television news programs like The O’Reilly Factor, where the host cuts off the mike of guests whose opinion he dislikes. The protesters here like to think...
A variant of this ascetic self-denying perspective also lurks behind the prohibition impulse. Make no mistake: The war on drugs is about controlling people, not crime. Drugs have largely been defined by their links to vice and bacchanalia—from Homer’s lotus eaters (rescued from...
The fragile Senate bill rests on three pillars: legalization of illegal residents, tighter border controls and the creation of a new guest-worker program that would grant up to 200,000 two-year visas annually. North Carolina, which imports more legal farmworkers than any other state, offers an idea of...
Ultimately, arguments about hypersensitivity and race-baiting seem like nothing more than attempts to stifle productive debate or rational progress in changing people’s attitudes. Discussion should not be off-limits because it holds the potential to make some people uncomfortable, not only with the people around them...
Hewitt counters that Romney is facing a double standard, born of a barely hidden bias. "It is unreasonable to demand that a Mormon candidate expose and defend his deepest beliefs in rational terms in order to reassure voters that he is of sound mind," he says. He warns Evangelicals hostile...