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...immoral act by blaming anyone but the perpetrator. The message is being blasted loud and clear from the stages of television talk shows and 12-step help groups; heinous acts of violence and depravity are not to be judged as stand-alone crimes, but rather in the larger context of the possible failings of an individual's relationships with others and with society. And this phenomenon is not limited to criminals whose childhood is in the recent past; celebrated killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and Robert Alton Harris have details of their childhood splashed all over the headlines of the nation...
...said that at San Francisco State University, she and other officials have urged faculty members to eliminate the word "black" when used in a negative context, like "black storm," from their teaching...
...Faculty's guidelines state, "Amorous relationships between members of the faculty and students that occur outside the instructional context can...lead to difficulties," but as yet. Harvard does not forbid these liaisons by the letter...
Mobs have an evil dynamic. An ethnic tribe, at its worst, is a supermob. A sense of narcissistic self-pity that is merely contemptible in an individual is transformed to heroism in the tribal context: a fierce, virtuous assertion of the group. That is why ethnic grievance -- a rising force in so much of the world -- is so dangerous. When the subjective goes tribal, the self-indulgence of one man or woman comes frighteningly alive, collective, suddenly legitimized, glorious even. What would be individual shame now blossoms into shamelessness. The weak and vicious transfer their worst defects to the larger...
Warsh puts economic history into a larger context of culture and ideas. In one essay, he links the Marxist theory of "Punctuates equilibrium" in economic evolution and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould's hotly-debated theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolutionary biology...