Word: salients
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Some students called the letter hate speech, and called Pappin a homophobe. In protest, two of Pappin’s DeWolfe suitemates resigned their positions on the Harvard Salient, the conservative magazine that Pappin edited at the time...
...Salient, he says, is a good vehicle...
...archdiocese was the fourth-largest in the country and included over two million Catholics. He wrote op-ed pieces for the Washington Post and spoke before President Clinton. In the United States, Law became a very public figure—a salient representative of Catholicism...
Pappin’s article is also an example of what I call The Paradox of The Salient. Every piece in The Salient is written as though it alone clarified an issue previously obscured by all other debate. And yet the vast majority of articles are about as lucid as postmodern social theory written in old German. Moreover, it often seems you can tell which Moral Reasoning classes a Salient editor has taken—and which he or she has missed—by the author’s choice of philosophers...
...Harvard, Pappin’s views and The Salient as a whole have so clearly fallen almost entirely outside the circle of reasonable dialogue that it is simply not worth the time or energy to argue. In short, nobody cares...