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Will and Sandel, perhaps America's foremost conservative and liberal philosophers, stand hand-in-hand in the belief that America must head into a time of a new republicanism, in which the government will abandon its value-neutral pretenses and actively seek to mold citizens to embody certain virtues so that they will be better equipped to share in self-government. Their contention is that confining politics solely to the economic distribution debate between libertarians and egalitarians is no longer appropriate. The new "statescraft as soulcraft" (to use Will's term) may well be inevitable...
...been a perfect organization. However, it is the only worldwide forum of its kind. We should not abandon it because of petty administrative problems and thereby lose sight of its higher ideal of international peace. And until a Congress representing 50 states can run perfectly without wasteful spending and sluggishness, it can hardly expect perfection from a U.N. representing 185 sovereign nations...
...Cambridge will have fewer federal resources, but we must not abandon the needy, and we must try to reduce costs," he says...
Podhoretz and West would do well to take a lesson from Minister Farrakhan himself. In a Newsweek interview that appeared this week. Farrakhan said that Jewish groups had faxed him after the march, asking him to abandon his anti-Semitism. "What they're asking for, it seems to me, is to cut the heart out of a messenger's message," the Minister said. Farrakhan, alas, does not bracket...
Beethoven's contemporaries declared that the Seventh Symphony could only have been composed by one who was drunk, perhaps alluding to Beethoven's unusual obsession with the rhythmic qualities of this composition. In that light, Kleiber presents a reading replete with charm and joyful abandon, tempered with sensitivity and intelligence...