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...title is a heavy-handed exploitation of the considerable popular interest in women and American writing. The interest itself is entirely merited; as Pearlman and Henderson posit, "[t]he sheer numbers of women writing today and the high quality of poetry, drama and fiction by those women are the by-products of the second women's movement and the social, political and psychological changes it has wrought." While their argument that women dominate the modern literary scene in America is plausible and promising, their presentation of it is woefully amateurish...
Unlike Oliver Stone, I'm not going to posit the existence of a conspiracy to derail the American democratic process. Rather, the two phenomena feed each other in a self-perpetuating cycle: people's unwillingness to make complex intellectual discussion part of politics leaves only superficial "character analyses" (i.e. rumors) to be debated, which then lowers the standard of the political process further and makes it harder for a public figure's ideas to be his most important characteristic...
...ludicrous to suggest that we should decide truth and falsity only on the basis of who has lied before and who seems more honest. If the staff wants to posit this as a standard for all decisions about truth, how would it handle a case in which someone accused by a "credible" witness of murder has lied (or even murdered) before? By the staff's standard, The Crimson would "believe" the suspect was guilty even before the evidence was presented...
...posit a struggle for supremacy in which Japan and Europe emerge as the main combatants. What has Europe got going for it that the U.S. hasn...
...will posit straight out that our conflict policy is stronger than any other buy-side institution that I know, or sell-side," Meyer says. "It does not absolutely prevent side-by-side investments, which is what Harken...