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...academic acquaintance, Big Grant Beckerman, who is blessed with a remarkable ability to trim his grant proposals to the prevailing political winds. Trillin writes, "When Reagan named a neo-conservative to chair the NEH, Big Grant submitted a history proposal with a thesis that amounted to this: slavery was bad, of course, but could the slaves be said to have suffered compared to the Yeshiva student on Norman Podhoretz's block in Brooklyn who lived in constant peril of being ridiculed by black teen-agers for throwing like a girl...
...would be impossible to neatly categorize CLS, because CLS is more of a united front of distinctly individual theorists then an easily identifiable, well-demarcated theory. CLS scholars draw upon an eclectic mixture of thinking, using in various proportions the tenets of Legal Realism, neo-Marxism and French Structuralism. In fact, there are so many factions in CLS that nobody knows how many CLS professors there are at the Law School...
...citations of sources. One wonders, for instance, just how he can be certain that President Ngo Dinh Diem would have outpolled Ho Chi Minh or any other opponent in a hypothetical free election in South Viet Nam. His book is less a history than an impassioned pleading against both neo-isolationists who believe the U.S. has no stake beyond self-defense and confrontational rightists who see a Soviet hand guiding every local upheaval in the Third World. To Nixon, Viet Nam was "a just cause," and its lesson should not be abstention from involvement but shrewd selectivity in defining national...
...name, La Proportionnelle, may sound musical, but the controversial new electoral plan based on proportional representation, proposed last week by President Francois Mitterrand's government, has provoked feelings that are anything but harmonious. "Shameful," declared Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris and leader of the right-leaning neo-Gaullists. A volley from the left came only 13 hours after the announcement of the plan, when the highly popular Minister of Agriculture, Michel Rocard, a Socialist and longtime Mitterrand rival, resigned in protest...
There is no question that exposing students to a variety of different economic viewpoints "helps them better understand mainstream neo-classical economics." But opponents of Feldstein's decision ignore the possibility that the current system already offers sufficient breadth of opinion, particularly for an introductory course...