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...York Times Magazine's Sunday cover story about the Harvard class of 2000 or in such articles as New York magazine's "Give Me Harvard or Give Me Death," the discrimination with which Harvard chooses each class makes the world believe that we are situated in some society of supermen and women. Harvard has agreed to bestow its once-in-a-lifetime college experience on us, the most unique pool of students in the country. We are assumed to be the exemplars of well-roundedness, or else we might never have been granted acceptance. We cannot possibly be a mere...
...recognize Tadros' point that Israel's record is not perfect. The Israelis are not always the moral supermen that Tadros and the rest of us would like them to be. However, for him to claim that the Israelis "have failed to come to terms with their past" is ridiculous considering that he has extensively quoted prominent Israelis to document past injustices...
...confound the disciplined Nazi machine. D-day was a battle won by ones and twos and struggling gaggles of men who came out of the sea and moved inexorably up the small trails to defy Hitler's belief that they were too soft and self- indulgent to defeat his supermen...
According to Queenan's analysis, Jett's love of Nietzsche reveals a "glaring dysfunctional personality trait" which indicates "colossal dishonesty." In Queenan's philosophy-free world, Nietzsche is "the deranged proto-Nazi most celebrated for the theory...that the Supermen will one day rule the world." After a couple of selective quotes, Queenan's point becomes clear: anyone sick enough to read Nietzsche must be a lying thief...
...writings are often disturbing (that, after all, was the point), his supposed "Nazi legacy" was effectively discredited a few decades ago by eminent Nietzsche scholar and prolific translator, Walter Kaufmann. Indeed., Nietzsche detested the German Reich and once boasted, "I am having all anti-Semites shot." Significantly, Nietzsche's "Supermen" were not anti-intellectual warmongers (read: Hitler), but rather the great community of artists and philosophers of the future...