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...proliferating need for plug-in power. The issue is not whether the U.S. has enough coal. Even if the nation chose to meet all its staggering demand with its most popular fuel for generating electricity, coal, its reserves would last many decades. The question is whether America wants to bear the costs and effects of burning all that coal or would prefer the costs and effects of splitting some atoms instead...
...pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what all good little deconstructors would call their "refusal of authoritarian closure," meaning, roughly, that they don't mean anything in particular. It's as though those who bet on him can't bear to face the possibility that his work was vacuous to begin with, so that the charade of admiring the acuteness of his "strategies" can keep going, despite the quasi-industrial repetitiousness with which he recycles his rather small idea...
...second lecture, a careful reading of Saul Kripke's account of the Wittgensteinian "solution" to the problem of skepticism, appears at first to bear little relation to the first lecture. Here Cavell is intent on untangling Kripke's seductive interpretation of Wittgenstein's passages on rule-following. Kripke, Cavell suggests, misconstrues Wittgenstein's sense of the skeptical in his very supposition that there is a problem to be solved...
...organically linked to the fate of reforms inside the U.S.S.R. Supporting reform is morally right. It is also very much in America's national interest. Ironically, it is in Gorbachev's interest as well. If we support the reformers, they will be better able to bring pressure to bear on Gorbachev to realign himself with them, to end his current detour and return the country to the road of reform...
...explanations for Congressional acquiescence range widely. Perhaps a few politicians do base their voting record on the Second Amendment, which asserts that "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of people to keep and bear arms, shall not be in fringed. Maybe the everyone-to-himself mentality inherent in the American psyche has something to do with it as well...