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However, political seriousness is not moral justification by itself any more than vague psychologizing about the SLA provides a valid basis for ignoring all moral discussion. The important lesson of the SLA is not how much evil can be accomplished by politically naive madmen, but how much harm can be...
LAST THURSDAY, three Palestinian guerrillas killed 20 Israeli high-school students. The next day, Israeli bombers killed 48 residents of a refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Like the three untraced car-bombs that killed 23 Dubliners Friday, like the murder of Marcus Foster by the Symbionese Liberation Army which apparently...
So even if oil profits were high, that would not reveal a scandal. It would simply reveal the rational, just, efficient, workings of the market.
Although George, the philosopher-hero of Jumpers, expresses a need for metaphysical convictions, Stoppard claims he himself vacillates between uncertainties: "I might subscribe to certain beliefs on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and to a totally different set on Tuesday and Thursday. I think that a sense of conflict between one...
During his five years in Paris, Jefferson was attended by his quadroon slave girl, Sally Hemings, who-to complicate matters-had been fathered by his father-in-law. Though she could have technically claimed freedom in France, Sally and her oldest son remained slaves when Jefferson returned to Washington in...