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...generally applied to so-called “Republican values”: anti-abortion, pro-abstinence, anti-taxes, pro-religion, etc. It represents the people who are outraged by America’s crumbling nuclear family and are disgusted by society’s tolerance of meaningless sex. And Wisse uses this definition of conservatism when she connects students’ aversion to change with their supposed moral values...
Like most of her tenured peers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Wisse is still fixated by the ideological warfare of the 1960s. The pro-sex, pro-drugs, pro-Rock N’ Roll activists are “liberals,” and the Lacoste-popping, pro-establishment types are “conservatives.” And, of course, no one bridges these heavily polarized political camps...
Ultimately, Wisse stumbles onto a correct point—Harvard students are conservative—while remaining fundamentally incorrect; if one follows Wisse’s definitions of political allegiances, Harvard students are still as “liberal” as ever—pro-gay, pro-sex, pro-civil liberties...
...says. This elite interest in the lowbrow might be seen as a new permutation of what Kaufman says el-ites did with Shakespeare during the nineteenth century.“Up until then Shakespeare was for everyone, and it was a very ribald affair so long as the sex jokes were hammed up,” he says. “Only in the nineteenth century did elites try to make [Shake-speare] something for highbrows.” One worry seems to be that pop culture will also soon be rarified on the grounds that most people don?...
These graphic sex scenes only highlight Ward’s weak writing skills. She lacks lyrical prose compared to other established vampirical writers like Rice. Even her sentence structure is more aligned with the simplicity of Dan Brown...