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...Patriotism Deficit Joe Klein writes that avoiding discussion of patriotism "is a chronic disease among Democrats, who tend to talk more about what's wrong with America than what's right" [April 14]. Playwright David Mamet recently abandoned his lifelong allegiance to the Democratic camp, saying its worldview could be summed up thus: "that everything is always wrong." This totally negative attitude will be the Democratic Party's downfall unless it can return to a more centrist position. Joop van der Lijn, Palmerston North, New Zealand...
...government’s apparent reluctance to yield under this scrutiny makes Staples’s decision to keep mum on Darfur all the more misguided. This not to say that Staples was wrong to insist international diplomacy should come first—it certainly should...
...meat production may very well be the hope of this century’s Green Revolution, it should not be construed as a solution to the ethical question of whether or not people should raise and slaughter animals. Even though PETA’s prize is presented for the wrong reasons, it will still nonetheless be a boost to a field that could take decades to mature. And when it does, I call dibs on the first rack of polar bear ribs.Steven T. Cupps ’09, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a biological anthropology and economics concentrator...
...physical and educational infrastructures of the country are badly outdated. In order to have an election about those big challenges, we need to shove some serious social issues - like gun control and, yes, even abortion - and phony character issues to the periphery. But Obama is going about it the wrong way. "After 14 long months," he said in his concession speech, "it's easy to get caught up in the distractions and the silliness and the tit for tat that consumes our politics, the bickering that none of us are immune to, and it trivializes the profound issues." What...
...certain familiarity with life as it is lived by normal Americans is useful; a distance from the élite precincts of academia, where unrepentant terrorists can sip wine in good company, is essential. Hillary Clinton has learned these lessons the hard way; Barack Obama thinks they are "the wrong lessons." The nomination is, obviously, his to lose. But the presidency will not be won if he doesn't learn that the only way to reach the high-minded conversation he wants, and the country badly needs, is to figure out how to maneuver his way through the gutter...