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...editors: If the “wonks of the academic left” choose to answer Travis Kavulla’s call for a seminar on the Danish cartoons (“Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these...
...Gross responded: “Good questions. The answer is that my office made some mistakes (for which I take responsibility). I am now working with Dean Kirby and Dean Tatar to set it right...
...Salient should have asked itself, “Does publishing these cartoons help our allies or our enemies?” The ensuing riots that some of our allies have struggled to subdue, and the inevitable use of these cartoons as recruiting tools and propaganda by the Jihadists answer this question loudly and clearly. There are other means by which The Salient could have challenged Harvard’s misguided sensitivities, but in this instance, The Salient has put its desire to grandstand and challenge the liberal orthodoxy of Harvard ahead of our country’s goal of winning...
...Pinker said.Another well-known Summers supporter, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, also said he wanted the president to respond forcefully to his opponents.“He needs to start defending himself,” Mansfield said, “and to answer and refute his miserable critics.”Summers now faces the daunting task of galvanizing his backers without further antagonizing his foes.Professor of Public Service David R. Gergen, who advised four U.S. presidents and also counseled Summers during last year’s crisis, said, “My sense...
...Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert’s Psychology 1573, “Future Happiness” asks if “people know what will make them happy” and draws on “psychology, philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral economics” to explore the answer. Clinical Instructor in Psychology Nancy L. Etcoff’s Psychology 871a, “The Science of Happiness” has students learning about “the brain’s pleasure circuitry,” the “history of ideas on happiness from Aristotle to Kahneman...