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Wright's critics have confused nationalism with patriotism. Nationalism is the uncritical support of one's country regardless of its moral or political bearing. Patriotism is the affirmation of one's country in light of its best values, including the attempt to correct it when it's in error. Wright's words are the tough love of a war-tested patriot speaking his mind--one of the great virtues of our democracy. The most patriotic thing his nation can do now is extend to him the same right for which he was willing...
...life. “You are a parent, you have a child in your arms, the child is critically ill,” Kornan said: “You don’t ask about the sexual orientation of the doctor.” A political candidate—regardless of sexual orientation—should run on competence, intelligence, and honesty, she said. While Korman encouraged candidates to be up-front about their sexual orientation, she said a politician should not depend on this facet alone. “You don’t hide...
...many years now, colleges have contented themselves with cleansing their curricula of politically incorrect presumptions and prejudices—so-called Great Books programs and American civic education, to offer two examples—meanwhile creating preserves, regardless of academic rigor, for the trendy and ideological disciplines like the study of women, gender, and sexuality...
...Scholarly journals could not survive without these copyright costs, and academia would suffer a loss without the existence of these journals, which provide a source for current and relevant work. Georgia State University is certainly not the first school to digitize course packs at the expense of copyright, but regardless of how many schools are already doing this, these universities need to obey “fair use” policies. Given that respect for intellectual property is so expensive to students, universities should find a way to cover these costs institutionally rather than individually. Online programs such as JSTOR...
...last night. He's talking about the culture of perpetual spin, where everything is fair game in the service, including your opponent's kindergarten dreams of grandeur. It's a game of guilt by association, as Obama said last night, "the kind of game in which anybody I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship, their ideas can be attributed...