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...stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates local mores. I Am a Northeastern Man champions the grace of Manchurian women, while The Spirit of the Hunan People argues that the courage of that province's denizens "earns them the respect of their enemies." The most popular song of the past two years compares people in the region near North Korea to the Communist Party's most revered soldier-hero, Lei Feng. And China...
...stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates local mores. I Am a Northeastern Man champions the grace of Manchurian women, while The Spirit of the Hunan People argues that...
...honest, Montesquieu's writing style has never helped his case for a wide readership. His dense, often confounding 1748 masterpiece The Spirit of the Laws can seem a ramshackle mansion, honeycombed with a floor plan impossible to master; Voltaire called it "a labyrinth without a thread." Likewise, while our Constitution opens with a stirring preamble, "We the people ...," it quickly settles into a tedious recitation of items, articles and sections, bulging in their seeming infinity like Harpo Marx's coat pockets, detailing all manner of governmental powers and functions--related to everything from dockyards to coinage. In fairness, how could...
...sanction their break with England, America's founders in 1776 invoked Voltaire, Locke and other philosophers more optimistic, even revolutionary, in spirit than Montesquieu. But it was from the warier sage of La Br??de that the Constitution's framers learned how to fashion a lasting government. Under his sway, the framers insisted on a Judiciary separate from the other branches of government. And drawing on the Frenchman's ideas, the framers also designed a Legislative Branch of government with two houses, each to check the other...
...grant that it is likely, as President Summers alleges, that he made this hypothesis “in the spirit of academic inquiry,” intending to provoke a scholarly investigation into the causes behind the current gender disparity in math and science. But while there is scientific merit in exploring these possibilities as a thought experiment conducted in private or as a controlled scientific study, the remarks at Friday’s conference fit neither of these models, despite the exclusive character of the gathering. Summers may have been invited to speak as an economist, but he cannot...