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''This is no time for political macho.'' The historian pointed out that this new form of campaigning also would lift the election process ''out of the ruck of sidewalk hawking and handshaking to a decent level of rational debate.'' Replied Kennedy: '...
While by the early '60's Podhoretz still admired the humane values and vision that Students for a Democratic Society and other radical groups continued to promulgate, he had begun to believe that their appraisal of American cultural decay was exaggerated, unwarranted and dangerous. Podhoretz' complete divorce from radicalism came...
He paid a partial price for his apostasy: sneers, vilification, few invitations to literary parties. Those who attacked him assumed an attitude of moral superiority. In an atmosphere of growing intellectual conformity, rational debate became irrelevant. During a discussion among antiwar protesters, for example, one participant expressed fear that the...
It is against that background that the question of increasing fines in order to make it more difficult for people to move in that the decision was made. My point is that it is a very rational step from a practical point of view to obviate misery.
That is, everything that does not fit into Mandelbaum's idyllic vision of a cabal of national security advisors and independent rational strategists setting policy gets relegated to the analytical ash-heap of "friction."