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An unusual attack on this trend comes from a right-wing professor--who nonetheless advocates capitalism as the "cure for racism." George Reisman, a professor of economics at St. Johns University in New York and author of a forth-coming book on racism and the welfare state, last week spoke...
Sir / I am most certainly not in favor of impeachment of our President, and I deeply resent the media's stirring up thoughts of rebellion among the masses, instead of encouraging the people of the U.S. to keep calm and do some rational thinking. Do not incite mob rule...
It didn't work out quite like that, naturally. The three Coalition councilors and Widener faced four liberal and conservative councilors, and found it hard to push legislation through. Moreover, the Coalition itself was split on particular issues. Its black members were unsympathetic to its feminists. "If this doesn't...
Intransigence is not an Israeli monopoly, nor reasonableness a dominant trait in Arab policy. So interwoven are the rights and wrongs of the Arab and Israeli cases, so conflicting their claims to a twice-Promised Land, so much death and grief and hurt a part of existence to both peoples...
For the past few years I've been amused by the charge that radicals receive attention (at universities, in the media) through spectacle rather than through airing their views in rational debate. We come to assume that speeches and discussion groups are rational because they are set in the university...