Word: groups
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ALTHOUGH HE HAD the intellect of a philosopher, Lippmann shunned a strictly contemplative career in academia. Four years after graduation and work in Boston politics and journalism, a group of New York writers asked Lippmann to join them as founding editor of the New Republic, launched as the voice of anticorporate progressivism. His editorials in the New Republic's early days drew the attention of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The war president chose Lippmann to serve in a clan-destine group helping draft political boundaries for post-World War Europe; from its inquiry emerged the famous Fourteen Points...
Richard Manley, president of Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business lobbying group, said the measure--which would limit property taxes to 2 1/2 per cent of assessed property values--is "poor tax policy...
...educated. If your libertarian opponent will admit that prejudice exists, he will be hard-pressed to show that segregation would not be the inevitable result of his perfect free market economy. Compare the benefits of segregation--freedom to hate as one wishes--with its disadvantages. Grab some passing minority-group member by the elbow, and ask if he'd enjoy living in a system that guaranteed his political freedom but allowed some rich white WASP to, say, exclude him from Harvard...
...saying the liberties of the individual are paramount?" "Exactly!"). Then ask them how they could possibly consider voting in a presidential election. I mean, after all, is the tyranny of 50 per cent plus one any better than the tyranny of one? How can a group of people impose their will on any individual? Don't you think it's incredibly hypocritical of you to vote and give your support to a system that imposes its authority on individuals? Libertarians would rather be stolen, raped and kidnapped than hypocritical. Ed Clark will never...
...another essay, "Ethnicity and Social Change," he ascribes the upsurge of ethnic identification to "a strategic choice by individuals who, in other circumstances, would choose other group memberships as a means of gaining some power and privilege." He argues that people choose ethnic identification because the increasingly bureaucratic social structure weakens other identities; traditional authority structures break down and hence there is an increased need for ethnic organization to achieve increased rights. He proves his case vigorously, but offers no therapy for the ills he diagnoses. He is assuredly a guardian of learning, a refined expert, and a trenchant critic...