Word: wrongheadedness
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Behind the political posturing, however, is a growing national anxiety that Canada's military is heading into risky, uncharted territory and talking more brazenly about it. Defense chief Hillier warned last year that Canadian Forces would be involved in killing "scumbags" as they ramped up their participation in the global...
Where Harvard professors missed the board altogether, Kellaway, and, to a lesser extent, Bradley, hit the bullseye. Pundits who used Summers’ ouster to score political points—either against political correctness, the Left, or Harvard faculty proper—were blinded by their own prejudices to what...
There remains, however, the cohort of student groups who currently hold precious office space in the basements of Yard dormitories. These organizations—including the mammoth Harvard International Relations Council (IRC)—will be evicted once the renovations of the Hilles are complete. Understandably, the IRC and...
Ever since his coruscating book Mad in America was published in 2002, American Robert Whitaker has been a poster boy for the anti-psychiatry movement. In Mad in America (Perseus Books), he argued that the assumption of a physical cause for schizophrenia had given rise to many wrongheaded treatments, from...
No one can reasonably deny that those of us who are HIV positive are obliged to act responsibly to prevent further transmission of the AIDS virus. Amitai Etzioni's view, however, is grossly wrongheaded ((Essay, Dec. 13)): for years the gay community has been taking concrete steps to educate people...