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...Sandel took exception, however, to the notion of unlimited freedom of speech in an academic setting...
Yesterday's panel was comprised of Professors Michael J. Sandel and Pedro Noguera, New York Times columnist J. Anthony Lewis `48, and representatives of the Black Students Association, Vietnamese Students Association, Chinese Students Association (CSA), The Salient and The Crimson...
Some would say it does. In a 1997 op-ed piece for the New York Times, Michael Sandel campaigned against the trade in pollution, arguing that it would allow wealthy countries to buy their way out of pollution limits and “undermine the sense of shared responsibility” necessary for cooperation. Yet we let wealthy people buy their way out of cleaning sewers, and that’s pretty degrading work. It would certainly give a greater sense of shared responsibility if every household had to clean its own sewers or make its own steel...
Sure, my parents will attend the scheduled, stiff events, but they didn't leave the smoggy comforts of Southern California to learn about the allure of health care at Harvard--or even to discover the ancient perspectives on our future climate. (Amazing, I know.) Professor Michael J. Sandel may have success rekindling a few parents' flirtations with philosophy, but most folks are undoubtedly more interested in the intimate aspects of our Harvard lives. They'll want to meet that boy. They'll want to meet your nemesis (in my case, that's Stephen E. Sachs '02--damn him!). They...
...Parents Weekend Committee couldn't have been more on target. Like the vast majority of their sons and daughters, parents at this weekend's event will learn about learning at Harvard by being crowded into the aisles of a stuffy lecture hall to hear a well-suited Michael J. Sandel pontificate about teleology and what is just. Yes, there will be the illusion of interaction with the man on the stage; Sandel will ask for questions. But inevitably there will be too many people in the audience for your parents' questions to be answered. Or, like you, your parents...