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...country where the unbridled pursuit of self-interest has led to the spread of what Michael Walzer recently termed "the ideology of selfishness," the moderating force of apology appears as salient as ever. When those who govern or administer use apologias for the opposite reason--for the defense of self-interest or the defense of illegitimacy--they undermine morality...
...Indochina" school of revised history. Norman Podhoretz has made this his new gospel, preaching on The New York Times Op-Ed page and in his latest book, Why We Were in Vietnam. Closer to home, members of the Conservative Club have endorsed the message in their newspaper. The Salient, and in small rallies...
...States allow several crucial dominoes to fall by failing to finish the job in Vietnam, but those who opposed American intervention and worked for a removal of U.S. troops are culpable for the misery of the region's starving, oppressed masses. Mark A. Sauter '82, managing editor of The Salient and one of Harvard's prominent student right-wingers, put it this way in a recent interview: "I'm willing to say that most people who marched against the war in Indochina were well-intentioned, most, not all...but what lessons have they drawn? Have they drawn the lesson that...
Like Podhoretz, Sauter and his mates have gone to great lengths to prove that conditions in Indochina are worse now than they were during the three decades of war in that region from 1945 to 1975, when a settlement of sorts emerged. The Salient has featured an extensive article by a former North Vietnamese leader who now rails against the failures and lies of communism in his homeland. The campus conservatives have presented similar characters at public demonstrations, and the rhetoric is predictable: The United States precipitated the horrors of communist rule by pulling out. The Cold Warriors could have...
...SALIENT observations must qualify any assessment of the Right's success here First, most of the initial media interest in the phenomenon last fall focused on the appearance of two publications: the Dartmouth Review. Hanover's irresponsible, gay-baiting rag, and later, Sauter's Salient. At Harvard, whatever discussion there has been on the conservative issue has also revolved around the newspaper Regardless of its extreme stands, it's impressive that they cared enough to get the thing off the ground, people say as they scan The Salient over lunch. Impressive, yes, but the impetus came from the outside--from...