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Half a century ago, Berlin wrote of a widespread reluctance to engage the kind of ideological questions that had resulted in so much bloodshed in previous decades. He saw then what many others observe today—a shift of emphasis away from disagreement about political principles to “disagreements, ultimately technical, about methods,” about achieving the prosperity and security “without which arguments concerned with fundamental principles and the ends of life are felt to be ‘abstract,’ ‘academic,’ and unrelated...
...presidents choose to cut the number of recruits, the debate will likely shift to the question of how they will...
What Summers hasn’t shown is an ability to persuade the Faculty to shift course. Can a course of engagement and loud talk carry persuasive power on issues where the Faculty is of a different mind...
...Summers wants to shift the Faculty’s direction, patience and persistence will have to be his largest virtues...
Despite Summers’ effort to avoid linking this goal with a shift toward tenuring younger academics, leading members of the Faculty understand Summers to mean just this...