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...years to the controversy that surrounded Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, a study of the Adolf Eichmann trial, in which she coined the famous phrase "the banality of evil." Arendt did not seem satisfied with the term and afterward wrote in a letter to a friend (the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem), "It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never 'radical,' that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface...
...barriers erected by the Ivy Agreement and the spirit of the scholar-athlete are subject to interpretation, just as the definition of a college is, and as a result an unusually well-publicized debate rages. Do you cut down on athletic recruiting? Do you limit practice schedules? Do you look at subsets of people purely as admissions numbers? Does taking steps—any steps—to do well necessarily entail selling one’s soul...
...perhaps most shocking is the absence of any senior scholar studying modern Islam at Harvard...
...survives as a discipline, it is being reined in by academic departments,” Granara says. “Nowadays, to study Middle Eastern history, you have to study historical theory through the history department. In the 1960s you went into a university to become a Middle Eastern scholar, not a historian...
...shocking to hear?? such a dire?? prophesy from a scholar like Swain, who is rapidly establishing herself as? one of the leaders of a new,? increasingly vocal? neoconservative brand of black political analysis that? rejects affirmative action and reparations for slavery and holds blacks responsible for their own uplift. Until recently, most left-leaning black theorists derided her as a hopeless optimist. Her previous book, "Black Faces, Black Interests," ruffled many black politicians by dismissing their fear that a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of race in the creation of majority black congressional districts would...