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Nevertheless, Oz's Peace Now movement and his book show a shrewd political sense. Oz has maneuvered into an untouchable position by constructing a platform whose legitimacy rests in the opportunity for constant criticism: he even encourages constructive potshots at his pluralist theory. Nevertheless, those of us with a skeptical bent might scoff at an idealistic vision. Oz says, "I would like very much to live in world where there are one hundred different civilizations with any cultural and religious traditions and not a single nation-state." No one can deny Oz the opportunity to hope for such a time...
Zeldin's longstanding interest in regionalism fills his new work. "Culture," he notes, "now divides France instead of unifying it." Having passed through nationalist and internationalist phases. France is presently in a pluralist stage whereby culture "is a battle for the right to live freely," he says, quoting minister Jack Lang. This notion underlies much of Zeldin's analysis of social mores as well. Defining a French national culture is "an unattainable goal." Styles of life "are ceasing to be homogeneous." There is "French taste, and French good taste." Contrary to previous stereotypes. "There is no established French attitude toward...
...make it any less true: the root of the Salvadoran dilemma is inequity--political, economic, social not communism. Which is not to assert the angelic nature of the Left. There are plenty of Marsist guerrillas who by not means constitute the panacea for EI Salvador. Still, the left is pluralist. And its voice remains too strong and popular to be muffled successfully...
...hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became highly developed Arbenz, a flawed politician in Schlesinger and Kinzer's eyes was nonetheless a true pluralist and certainly not a Marxist. But in Washington, where the CIA was steadily gaining influence and officials saw red in every corner, the Guatemalan reforms were radical enough to arouse suspicion...
...quite equivalent to it, as Prof. Dershowitz intimates. Since the mid-1960s the experience has been plain enough ideological military among the Left, feminists, black ethnocentrists. Third Worlders, the Right, and Jewish ethnocentrists display little appreciation of the delicate states of free speech in our type of pluralist society. These ideological militants must have it brought home to them that their right of opposition, often either hinting at or openly proclaiming the right of censorship, is not quite equivalent to the right of free speech. The latter for a place like Harvard, ought to be our primary obligation...