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...that his entering class has graduated. In his first and final semester as a columnist, he will diagnose the social pathologies endemic at Harvard utilizing his eye for all things bizarre, telling and off-kilter (like mental disorders). Part sass, part class, his column “High Society?? will appear on alternate Wednesdays...
...clear most Americans would care to see him do it. After Putin’s most blatant power-grab yet, the threat of de-democratization in Eastern Europe will likely continue to seem remote to an American public used to thinking of Russia as a defeated, ailing society??more of a joke than a potentially powerful state...
West also writes that “Summers revealed that he has a great unease about academics engaging the larger culture and society??especially the youths of hip-hop culture and democratic movements of dissent and resistance...
Constant wisecracks about President Bush’s lack of eloquence belie how the President asserts power through his vocabulary. His seeming inattention to language is probably a symptom of contemporary society??s general disinterest in words. This is evident in the sloppy communications even of students at a University like ours. Yet words do influence the interlocutors who use them, in often imperceptible but significant ways. Concepts which, when explained explicitly, we would refuse, penetrate our consciousness through their repetition as popular expressions and grow to become categories of our thought. Dismayingly, even speakers with the privilege...
Laying forth his vision for a second term in office, the president said he would promote an “ownership society?? by reforming social security, expanding access to health care and making his tax cuts permanent...