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...only somewhat less-frightening version of “2012” would involve the end of history arriving with no earthquakes, solar flares, or eruption of mountains in national parks. Instead, the end of history in this epic would arrive incrementally, as societal changes saturate the public sphere with freedom. In this apocalypse, heroism would arise not from a struggle to convince others that the world can be saved from external destruction, but instead that it could be safeguarded from disintegration from within...
...through their different approaches, both works deal with the intersection of art and labor—“Working” by using art as a means for glorifying the worker and welcoming the viewer into the workers’ sphere, Lehyt’s sculpture by exploiting the ambiguity innate in abstract art as a means for proclaiming that labor is impossible to understand from the outside. And both “Working” and the sculpture throw into sharp relief the inability of art to embody labor, particularly on a campus where so few individuals...
...suggest—vetting associates for such positions, even on something as distasteful as racism. What we can and must do is screen our affiliates for the highest possible scholarly qualifications, and then let them burnish or ruin their own reputations by non-scholarly utterances in the broader public sphere. Mr. Kramer has a Princeton Ph.D. and a record of scholarly publication, but he has not published recently in peer reviewed journals, so one might decide he is not an “active scholar” and should not therefore be affiliated with Harvard at all. That...
Hiltrud Schober, Pforzheim, Germany I agree with you on many points, especially the bureaucracy and the lack of efficiency in the E.U. Nobody would ever deny these shortcomings. Yet, I must firmly reject your suggestion that Europe should work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest, for instance in Bosnia, or reach out to the countries of North Africa, or cooperate with Turkey. Why don't you admit that it is the strategic interest of the U.S. to want other nations to be present in areas where the U.S. is not welcome...
...Neil says that even if Calderón initiatives like CELAC snub Washington, they "can actually be a good thing for the U.S." That's because they signal Mexico's renewed desire to do the heavy lifting in its main sphere of influence, Central America and the Caribbean, so that Washington - which suffered a diplomatic debacle last year when it tried to mediate the Honduras crisis - won't have...