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...which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions have become more elastic and fewer people are attending a church because of the specifics of its doctrine. The current sociological truism is that a Methodist who finds his way to church three times a week and a Catholic who attends daily Mass have more in common than either does with a Christmas-and-Easter liberal in his own church...
...truism that we Americans are a religious people. According to the most recent surveys, 95% of Americans believe in God, more than two-thirds belong to a church, 37% call themselves committed Christians, and substantially more people believe in angels than believe in evolution. Nor is religion confined to places of worship. Books proclaiming the end of days sell millions of copies, Christian music fills the Billboard charts, and new megachurches seem to spring up daily, providing everything from day care to singles mixers to yoga and Pilates classes. Our President routinely remarks on how Christ changed his heart...
...more attention to students, the quality of the academic experience at Harvard will soar,” wrote then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 in a 2002 memo to University President Lawrence H. Summers.It’s a truism that Harvard’s advising—if you can call it that—is in shambles. At long last, Harvard appears to be paying some attention. But the appointment of a dean of advising this spring is a quick fix, a cosmetic solution to a systemic problem. It allows the College...
...clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted in its tracks because the people got in its way, and because it got in theirs ... In a showdown between the rulers and the ruled, the rulers would have their way. After all, it was a well-established truism of the 20th century that a Communist regime is a military regime in disguise. The disguise came off in Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, in Poland in 1981-and in China last week...
...Power,” with a capital ‘P,’ “shall be invested in a President of the United States of America.” Depending on whom you ask, this phrase is either the justification for fairly extensive powers, or a truism meant only to open the second article, no more, no less. All that is left, then, that could justify the President’s action is his constitutional designation as Commander-in-Chief, except that this designation applies only to the nation’s military, and its invocation implies...