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...which almost no IOP students will join—and quietly hunting down terrorists doesn’t have the emotional appeal of bearing any burden or fighting any foe. But idealism and Kennedy nostalgia will not rescue politics from the likes of Mark Foley. If we cannot make politics virtuous, we can at least make it effective, and to that end, a generation of hard-headed realists may be just what the doctor ordered.Joshua Patashnik ’07 is a government concentrator in Adams House. He is the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Political Review...
...Doing unto Others The president professed that he cannot understand the Geneva Conventions [Sept. 18]. It is a sad day for the civilized world when the President of the most powerful country on earth can stoop so low as to openly promote barbaric treatment of prisoners of war. By flouting the humane terms of the Geneva Conventions, President Bush and his supporters should, at the very least, lose the votes of all servicemen and -women and their families. Leepi M. Basu New York City...
...demands is that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals must be subject to argument and amenable to reason. If I am opposed to abortion for religious reasons and seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or invoke God's will and expect that argument to carry the day. If I want others to listen to me, then I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with...
Kapetanovic responded to the donation over the Cabot House list: “Whoever you are—Thank You. I cannot possibly imagine what enormous impact your act of kindness will have on Hui’s family, who have undeservingly found themselves in the midst of the greatest of tragedies. Their pain, as boundless as it must be, has been made less so by your thoughtfulness...
...understandable in the post-war era, governments should not impose their version of the truth over their citizens. The French bill is well intentioned; its goal is to force Turkey to confront the atrocities committed by the ruling Committee for Union and Progress during World War I. But we cannot help but be skeptical of any state trying to impose its version of history and truth. States should simply avoid this business. Thus, our opposition extends beyond the French bill to the laws like those in Germany, Poland, Austria, and Switzerland which criminalize Holocaust denial. France’s passage...