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...side are those who believe that they have a wider responsibility to address all of the pressing social issues of our time. And even within both of those camps, there are differences of opinion over the amount of time and energy the public intellectual should devote to the public sphere. Though most agree that professors can make a positive contribution to society, current circumstances—from a media tendency toward soundbite punditry to a lack of guidance from administrators—have contributed to a general dissatisfaction with the current state of public-intellectual affairs...
Some professors say they find it necessary to refuse many speaking-engagement requests in order to maintain an appropriate balance between their work inside the academy and their work in the public sphere. “I say no more often than I say yes,” says Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence Tribe, “principally because such activities can distract from teaching and scholarship unless one keeps them under tight control.” Tribe, who helped argue the legal case for Al Gore ’69 in the Florida recount battle...
...were like a group of large water molecules floating in space that conserve surface area into a single sphere,” says Kevin R. Pilkiewicz ’05 when asked how “the anti-bonding” formed. His blockmates, seated at their computers in Eliot E-43/44, burst into laughter...
...ability to pay for cable and its past unrealized opportunities to do the job at huge savings leads me to the conclusion that Harvard has chosen not to avail the student body of cable because, in a fine example of market logic invading the purportedly separate academic sphere, it has no financial reason to care. The student body is expendable and the administration behaves accordingly. Almost 20,000 kids applied to Harvard last year and the administration only needs 1,600 or so to fill all the beds (not that there are enough beds). The odds are in the administration?...
...quite natural that we bristle at perceived unilateral American policies, whose very premise is that the United States has the right to disregard the opinions of foreign nations, and to override them altogether when doing so is necessary to achieving a stated end. The enlarged sphere or autonomy that America claims for itself in turn suggests that the United States occupies a privileged position in the international pecking order, and here we arrive at the most fundamental irritant: Unilateral policies, by reserving to oneself the right to act over the objections of one’s neighbors, presuppose one?...