Word: rationale
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While Mansfield's reasoned arguments received jeers from the crowd, his counterpart, Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson drew cheers when he stated (three times) that the concept of an Afro-Am department was "unassailable." That evening's events can be fairly characterized as the hegemony of "political correctness...
Rather than adopt the tactics of the politically correct, then, conservatives must demonstrate the superiority of their arguments through rational discourse. Rather than throwing around the charge of PC to discredit the position of their opponents, a practice that will eventually begin to backfire, conservatives and moderates must seek to...
Conservatives can weaken the arguments of the Left by presenting a well-reasoned position, defending it to the best of their ability, and logically dissecting their opposition. It is only in this manner that the orthodoxy of "political correctness" will fall. Only then will we be able to bid farewell...
Tifft and Jones root the Binghams in Southern traditions, from the mythmaking of genteel poverty to the brute force of the Klan, and sidle up to intriguing questions about the morality of inheriting vast fortunes and the special duties of media owners. But the core story is the mid-1980s...
One man rereads the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He cherishes their world, the fogs and bobbies, the rational wrapped in an ambient madness, the inexplicable each time yielding its secret in a concluding sunburst, a sharp clarity.