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This deeply felt, deeply personal affiliation is, I think, a common brand of college politics on both ends of the spectrum--and it certainly has its appeal. There's something very satisfying about meeting another dyed-in-the-wool liberal and realizing that we speak the same language. We roll...
Clearly, however, this kind of career liberalism also has some serious problems. Too often we end up shutting ourselves off from the opposition and curling up in our comfortable liberal bubble. The ideologically incestuous environment to which this gives rise breeds some of the most significant weaknesses in campus liberalism...
Liberal ideology is full of these kinds of buzz topics--topics about which feeling is so strong and unequivocal that two-sided discussion becomes impossible. Rape is one such topic. Any kind of racial bigotry is another. At the most basic level, of course, these issues are no longer up...
This means parting with some of our most beloved absolutes, and detaching ourselves from the blinding associations of the buzz topics. It means giving up some of the straightforward emotionalism that makes the kind of "identity liberalism" that I initially confessed was so personally satisfying. If political discourse at Harvard...
The no-menorahs rule is an extension of the fire prevention, no-candles policy applied to all Harvard housing. Yet, if you turn on a television or open up a family magazine in December, the newscasts and articles aren't warning people about the dangers of menorahs. Instead they are...