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...interventions. His characterization of young Palestinians as a superfluous population culturally predisposed to violence can only be described as racist. Indeed, his statements are rooted in a polemic that would have been unacceptable in reference to any other population. To quote Weatherhead Center executive committee member Stephen Walt, “What if a prominent academic at Harvard declared that the United States had to make food scarcer for Hispanics so that they would have fewer children? Or what if someone at a prominent think tank noted that black Americans have higher crime rates than some other groups, and therefore...
Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt commented, “What if a prominent academic at Harvard declared that the United States had to make food scarcer for Hispanics so that they would have fewer children? Or what if someone at a prominent think tank noted that black Americans have higher crime rates than some other groups, and therefore it made good sense to put an end to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other welfare programs, because that would discourage African Americans from reproducing and thus constitute an effective anti-crime program...
...conference included speakers from the Human Rights Campaign, the Associated Press, and the Walt Disney Company, as well as workshops and social events to create a united pan-Ivy LGBT community...
Henle identifies with a poetic tradition reaching from Walt Whitman’s concern with the Civil War to Allen Ginsberg protests during the Vietnam War. It is all the clearer now that the Harvard arts community too identifies with the artistic tradition in which these poets are situated, a tradition of involved artists who could take as their motto these words of compatriot Allen Ginsberg: “I’ll do the work—and what’s the Work? To ease the pain of living/ Everything else, drunken dumbshow...
...also more suburban. Smaller towns will outpace big cities, thanks to widespread telecommuting and the desire for community. Adding 100 million people will certainly change features of society, but overall, Kotkin believes, the U.S. will be stronger for it. The optimistic faith in American exceptionalism is straight out of Walt Whitman, but Kotkin, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future in New York City, bolsters his analysis with an army of statistics. It's a welcome view in a difficult time, yet it's also one that dismisses certain realities--China's economic might, for example...