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Max Novendstern

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Notes on the Amy Chua Debate

Amy Chua's WSJ article, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," is well worth the read, if only for socio-historical reasons. The debate that it kicked off centers around...

Weighing In: Our Political Climate

Of course our world, on balance, would be a safer place if we controlled our guns better, made them harder to acquire, harder to...

Weighing In: Daley and the Dilemmas of Politics

I'm having trouble deciding what I think about this latest scandal on the left — Obama's appointment of Bill Daley to Chief of Staff. And...

From the Bookshelf: Liberalism's Retreat

This is from George Packer's The Fight is For Democracy: For the past century, the political philosophy of collective action on behalf of freedom and justice...

For ROTC

The Washington Post has an OP-ED piece out that asks whether Harvard will have the "courage" to continue its ban on ROTC: It should not...

Weighing In: The Sin of Starving?

I have two points to make in response to Alastair's most recent post -- first, that I'm happy that he wrote it, because the issue of...

Weighing In: Is Affirmative Action a Poverty Relief Program?

In their exchanges, both Pete and Sam seem to accept the rather odd idea that affirmative action exists primarily to benefit the poor. For example,...

From the Bookshelf: David Foster Wallace

Work: "The Big Red Son" by David Foster Wallace Intro: Wallace goes slumming it with porn stars at the 1998 Adult Video Awards ceremony. Here...

Destroying the Fragile Community

David Brook's column on Wikileaks is a pretty good example of how the mainstream press has misread the organization's intentions. Brooks concludes that Wikileaks...

Dylan in Concert

Bob Dylan is coming to Lowell, MA tomorrow for a concert. Excited yet? Frankly, there's a lot that excites me more than the prospect of seeing...