Word: tikkun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CAVEAT LECTOR...The Tikkun Anthology is not another bleeding-heart liberal anthology of essays that weepingly and wimpily decry the Reagan years for its racism, heterosexism, classicism and militarism. Indeed, the one thing that characterizes this anthology is the consistently well-reasoned positions of its authors...
...those of you who don't give the alternative magazine shelves a second glance, Tikkun is a small bimonthly that fashions itself "A Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture, and Society." But don't let that fashions itself" A Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture, and Society." But don't let that stop you from reading...
...Crimson picked up the theme in an editorial on October 2 ("Pro Anti-Anti-PC") which said, "And, as was explained recently in The Nation and Tikkun, D'Souza's retelling of the alleged political persecution of Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom (often cited as the prime example of PC totalitarianism) was flat-out inaccurate...
...Tikkun did not disagree with the facts D'Souza presented in his reporting of "The Peopling of America." The Tikkun reviewer claimed that the incident "deserve[s] condemnation," although he did not consider it as serious "as being fired and blacklisted for one's beliefs." This is a difference of interpretation, not of fact...
...many completely different causes (environmentalism, feminism, gay rights) into one amorphous heap labeled "PC." We are finding out that the content of those "multicultural" courses, upheld by the right as the epitome of excess, were sometimes grossly exaggerated. And, as was explained recently in The Nation and Tikkun, D'Souza's retelling of the alleged political persecution of Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom (often cited as the prime example of pc totalitarianism) was flat-out inaccurate...