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...tell you things you didn’t know about the school you’re going to.” The Guide opens with an extraordinary vision of Harvard’s past, depicting it as an epic war between the College’s self-righteous left wing and the wicked tyranny of the Harvard administration.From its introduction, it would almost be easy to mistake the Guide for an odd exercise in irony—it is, after all, hosted at the site “badideafactory.com.” But its implausibility, even its surreal absurdity...
...also benefit the givers themselves. As strange as it may sound, by giving money to all of these causes, these celebrities will more than likely get more money back.I like to call this the “Bono effect.” Named after the granddaddy of all self-righteous entertainers who have melded promotion with selflessness, the “Bono effect” tells us that if you give away enough money in a highly visible manner, you will get back even more money through the magic of publicity. You might say that this “Bono...
...Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist on publishing about inaccessible European shows. But you, my reader beleaguered by that meandering and self-righteous introduction, are in for a treat. This review of an overseas exhibit does contain some of the smugness of the jet-setting art critics I previously scorned—but, with the caveat that all but one of the artists I tout have works that can be seen without leaving...
There are lots of reasons to be moral: avoiding prison, hell, and appearances on Gawker.com are just a few. But you’re in luck, oh principle–perplexed undergrad, for Harvard has bestowed its most righteous of all Cores, Moral Reasoning, upon thee. Unfortunately, it’s often righteously boring.In theory, Moral Reasoning courses will help you learn to deal with tough ethical questions, and face up to quandaries that enable you to hone your moral compass. Though the MR menu provides a seemingly gourmet spread of professors, readings, and course titles, reality is often more...
...University. "They hear it as aspirant. They hear, 'You can make it too--buy a car, get a job, get wealthy.' It can function as a form of liberation." It can also be exploitative. Outsiders, observes Milmon Harrison of the University of California at Davis, author of the book Righteous Riches, often see it as "another form of the church abusing people so ministers could make money...