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...Michael Hirschorn berates Jonathan Schell's Fate of the Earth for "simply not playing by political science rules." Quick--call an umpire...
...faculty of the Kennedy School to his side, then I suppose his failure to adopt their "rules" would be a rhetorical weakness. But it's clear Schell hoped to shift the ground of argument entirely to an ethical and moral plane, from which the "political science rules" which Hirschorn appears to hold sacrosanct appear unnatural, if not murderous. The structure of his book was to "simply say things are awful and then prescribe the best of all possible worlds," as Hirschorn puts it, but to say that things are intolerable and then point to the only tenable solution. Politics...
...Crimson's editorial page parrot mainstream pundits' assessment of the Jackson campaign (Mike Hirschorn's "Jesse's Tattered Message," 4/21). Hirschorn's point of view is indistinguishable from that of the hack apparatchiks of the Democratic Party who have aggressively tailored their party for electoral mediocrity and made a candidacy like Jackson's not only inevitable but highly desirable...
Jackson is an ethnic-group candidate of the sort that wrested the 20th-century Democratic majority away from a half-century-long Republican ascendancy. If the party is too ossified to grasp that it deserves to decline. But why castigate Jackson for serving his constituency rather than his party? Hirschorn mimics several syndicated columnists in regretting Jackson's bid to change primary run-off rules in the South that have barred Black candidacies; revising procedures would send racist Southern whites charging into the arms of the Republican Party, we're told. So what? That might be a blessing in disguise...
...Jackson's unattractive waffling in re Hymietown, it is of course indefensible, but it certainly doesn't disqualify him from American presidential politics. Hirschorn, like most of his professional colleagues, professes outrage at the hypocrisy the candidate displays in touting his morality and then employing detestable language. Well, if anyone accepted Jackson's rhetoric as face value, they're now forewarned: he's more politician than clergyman. But we've all known for years that every American president in recent memory relished the use of this kind of language in private; perhaps it's part of some macho politician...