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...week in mid-February, the Harvard community will have one more way to witness the exchange of virtue for self-liberation??and this time it won’t just be your roommate shaking off the January blues. Instead, this spectacle comes in the form of a comic, irreverent tale of innocence lost and knowledge gained: the Dunster House Opera’s upcoming production of Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring...
...More than 600,000 soldiers were killed during the Civil War, and this brutality is much easier to justify in the name of high ideals, like the preservation of each individual’s inalienable rights. If the war had economic motivations, though, this “war of liberation?? becomes something much darker. Egnal calls this, “one of the tragedies of American history,” explaining that despite their moral imperative against slavery, Northern sympathy for its victims was limited...
...Clinton presidency in and of itself would not notably alter the nature or level of prejudice and its effects in America. In “Political Progress and the Development of Black Insurgency,” Douglas McAdam affirms descriptive representation is valuable in its contribution to the cognitive liberation??what Americans consider to be legitimate and acceptable within society’s institutions—of American society as a whole. A black man or a woman of any color, in the highest office, may help reform the way current and future Americans conceive of those...
This is partly because the animal rights movement has proven so uninviting to Christians. Peter Singer, whose 1975 book “Animal Liberation?? began the modern movement, is an outspoken atheist and proponent of euthanasia. And People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ traveling trailer featuring a model of a vegetarian Jesus seated at the last supper with notable vegetarian “disciples” Paul McCartney and Cesar Chavez didn’t make a great impression when it pulled up at the Southern Baptist Convention last June...
...matter how much radio silence there is around its human rights violations, media exposure and international pressure in this age of globalization works. Just as Hungarians reclaimed their history when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989 by reburying the tragic heroes of 1956, the Chinese “liberation?? of Tibet will one day be re-written: Autonomy will begin to break the silence...