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...curricular process worked, consider the fate of the Task Force’s “Reason and Faith” proposal. This idea worried some professors who are—justifiably—distressed by the advance of unreason in society. Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker put the issue most plainly: “Universities are about reason, pure and simple.” Faith belongs in churches and temples, not at Harvard...
...never retracted his more basic association of Islam with unreason and violence. Indeed, if he had, it would have caused considerable confusion--if only because the behavior of the extremists seemed, at least to some, to prove his point. No editorialist could express frustration with him for initiating the row without condemning the subsequent carnage--and a good many decided his only fault was in speaking truth. Says a high-ranking Western diplomat in Rome: "It was time to let the rabbit out of the can, and he did. I admire his courage. Part of the Koran lends itself...
...that developer in the cafeteria, "Joel Klein" is a symbol more than a person. He is the personification of arrogance and unreason, and of a powerful institution that is misusing its power. Klein and Attorney General Janet Reno and the DOJ, in other words, are regarded in Redmond as cartoon figures, rather like the image of Gates and Microsoft projected by rivals and echoed in the antitrust suit. Each side holds this cartoon view of the other but cannot fathom why anyone would hold such a cartoon view...
Radcliffe Public Policy fellow Wendy Kaminer will address "Censorship, Unreason and the Therapeutic Culture" on Nov. 17. Kaminer is an attorney who is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio. She has also authored several books, including It's All the Rage; Crime and Culture...
...Evangelical and extremist religious groups are inundating our campuses with messages of guilt, unreason and intolerance. Freethinkers...present an alternative," Araujo said...