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...legal persons in future suits—he argues that if corporations and ships can already be persons before the law, it is absurd that animals cannot. Wise believes that until animals achieve legal personhood, even the strongest welfare laws will be undermined by animals’ property status??right now, there is no such thing as “animal rights law” he notes, only “animal slave...
...Tool Factory?” But I thought there was something refreshing about the openness of their ambition. The Harvard social code assumes that every student is wildly ambitious, but any display of ambition is seen as gauche. After three years of this, an overt bid for status??even an outrageous one—seemed kind of sweet. And these boys were so young. Have you ever experienced a devastating setback? I asked Chris. Last year, he said, he had only made it into the top ten nationwide for speech and debate. He would never be national high...
...presidential election, a staggering 20 percent of eligible non-voters avoided the polls due to “scheduling conflict or inconvenient voting procedures.” And, of those affected by such calendar clashes, most cited inflexible workday schedules—too often correlated with lower socioeconomic status??as barriers to voting. At its best, then, the system is merely broken; at its worst, it discriminates along socioeconomic lines...
...These days, the field of engineering enjoys a more elevated status??on par with medicine, business, and law—which it has attained by being at the cutting edge of knowledge and by making positive contributions to society. Moreover, advances from the field now underpin almost every aspect of our lives—including the digital cameras you and your parents are no doubt clicking at this Commencement. When you go to post the files on Facebook, a company conceived in a Harvard dorm room, consider that few had heard of social networking at the start...
...have taken on board. Multiculturalism is a strange combination of relativism and moralism. All cultures are equal and none can be privileged—that’s the relativism. But because some people claim privilege and use it to oppress others, they must be excluded from power and status??there’s the moralism. Multiculturalism gave feminists the ability to borrow the moral authority of Blacks, who had truly been oppressed. They have used it—quite without embarrassment—to exclude conservatives, because conservatives support injustice and oppose affirmative action. Feminists believe that...