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...disappointment and disillusionment.Politics should be the preserve of reason, where arguments about the common good and the individual good are entertained, disputed, and resolved. It should not have to shudder at the specter of busybody protestors and petition-signing extortionists. Moral indignation is an important passion for politics??it serves as a corrective to abstract cold reason gone astray. But it is nevertheless extremely powerful and should be used wisely. We should hope and pray for the abject of Darfur or Myanmar; but we cannot immanentize the eschaton—bring Heaven to earth—in hoping...
...Kelley’s other passion is “pothole politics??—the quality of life issues, such as road and sidewalk maintenance, that people expect the city to take care...
...Department of World Arts and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Savigliano will utilize a troupe of dancers in her discussion of Latin American gender politics.Incorporating American and Argentinean scholars from both the humanities and social sciences, panel discussions will address “Tango as Politics?? and “Tango as a Cultural Form.”Bhabha is most excited for Saturday’s three-way “conversation” between cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, another internationally-acclaimed cellist, the Mexico City-based Carlos Prieto...
...added that fields of study popular amongst conservatives—including military history and literature and politics??are underrepresented in universities...
...series of vignettes on the ever-elusive subject of love. The scenes follow the same general progression as most relationships, from jittery first-dates to chance meetings at wakes. Although the musical is unabashedly heteronormative—mostly likely a product of its pre-21st century datedness than its politics??it does accurately caricature the often hilarious situations involved in searching for, sustaining, or losing love. Anyone who’s ever had so much as an unrequited crush can enjoy...