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...after Gonzales v. Carhart in 2007, psychological trauma has appeared in common legal decisions as an argument against abortion, Suk said...
...objections by asserting that final clubs are just like fraternities at other schools. I’m not entirely sure that this is true—the concentration of wealth and power in Harvard’s clubs seems fairly unique—but even if it were, the argument is unpersuasive since the potential existence of similar injustices on other campuses is not a particularly compelling reason to tolerate injustice here...
...concern that with the introduction of women, cohesion, tight membership bonds, and institutional respect would all vanish. They often grow uncomfortable when asked how the current ban on women is any different from past forms of exclusion, such as keeping out blacks and Jews, but most settle on the argument that, unlike race or religion, gender is a "real" distinction.As we all learned in preschool, boys and girls are indeed different. But are these differences significant enough to preclude the possibility of co-ed social clubs? Would anyone’s experience truly be impoverished by gender-mixing...
...elaborate, if poorly executed, April fool’s joke. Among the sillier contentions made in the article are that Israel’s victories in 1967 and 1973 “demonstrated conclusively” that Israel can defend itself without foreign assistance. This argument gets it backwards. Israeli success was at least partially attributable to foreign assistance and thus reveals the necessity, rather than the irrelevance, of aid from its allies in facing the more numerous forces of its belligerent neighbors. Moreover, the more recent military conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza display Israel’s inability...
...Living Magazine stands as an argument against the countless magazines that are rendered “dead” by the censorship of their governments. Although it may be easy to forget that free speech is in fact a privilege and not a right in many areas of the world today, this stifling reality is something that writers like Mandanipour face as a constant presence. Many have suffered imprisonment in dedicating their lives to fighting for their freedom. In this way, The Living Magazine offers an opportunity for these writers to speak for many of those who cannot...