Word: utopias
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...obviously on the New Republic, but with a more narrow focus on politics. And a more consistent tilt to the right, though with a few surprises. Among several admiring pieces about Newt Gingrich is one by Charles Krauthammer that spurns the House Speaker's chipper vision of a techno-Utopia. Technology makes many problems worse, Krauthammer warns, leaving politics to clean up the mess; besides, conservatives shouldn't promise Utopia. If the Standard can shake up its friends in every issue, it could become the standard by which the other guys are measured...
...Create a social utopia, of course: a state with vast libraries, sports centers, every home wired for interactive television, cradle-to-coffin health care and unemployment benefits equal to your previous year's salary paid until...
...quick glance at the military history of America over the last century paints a picture far from utopia and peace. Indeed, after fighting two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and many other small conflicts, it is hard to not ask why there were so many conflicts and why they were fought...
...believe in some universal key orpanacea. I am not an advocate of what Karl Poppercalled "holistic social engineering," particularlybecause I had to live most of my adult life incircumstances that resulted from an attempt tocreate a holistic Marxist utopia. I know more thanenough, therefore, about efforts of this kind...
...running after athletes who are not always keen on sharing experiences and composing articles for a student body which is at best uninterested. (Anybody who is that interested in Harvard sports is already working here.) I've noticed that most Harvard students take their sports news in 40-point Utopia; any headline smaller than that is generally forgotten within 15 minutes...