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...still others on biblical history), it just doesn’t hang together as a coherent requirement. Again, we have to keep in mind that the requirement will attract attention from far and wide, and for a long time. For us to magnify the significance of religion as a topic equivalent in scope to all of science, all of culture, or all of world history and current affairs, is to give it far too much prominence. It is an American anachronism, I think, in an era in which the rest of the West is moving beyond it. These reservations should...
Activism is not about controversy for its own sake. HRL and other activist-minded organizations strive to create dialogue about their respective chosen causes because of the dearth of discussion on such topics at Harvard. Whether the topic is abortion or the daily life of a Harvard janitor, the average Harvard student is not sufficiently challenged to question the assumptions that he or she takes for granted...
...cow’s head from a jug—that allow events to unfold as they do in reality. The films largely resist attaching a narrative or an explicit meaning to their subjects, instead seeming to focus on the minute details briefly before moving to the next topic. Dvortsevoy, who came to filmmaking after aviation engineering, tries to minimize his presence in his own films, instead giving a voice to the people scraping out an existence in the margins of post-Soviet society. His press statement about “Highway” sums up his philosophy of filmmaking...
...organization in a neighborhood—clearly illustrate the concepts, they do not feel as relevant as they did in the late seventies. It is true that such events are important, but they are no longer attention-grabbing front page news. An in-depth discussion of nuclear proliferation, the topic of Schelling’s Nobel Prize lecture (included in the new edition), would have been more entertaining...
...them to put pressure on other countries rather than explode them and run the risk of retaliation, writes Schelling. He also wonders how America’s changing view of nuclear weapons will affect its use of them. It would have been nice to see such an engrossing topic in the second half of the book...