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...have no doubt that the administration will go to any length, will press any advantage, and will commit any crime to assert its domination over the Council,” Ragalie proclaimed. “It has already committed the worst crime of all: it has rejected truth in claiming to protect it.” If that isn’t the kind of well-reasoned rhetoric that we ought to demand from our administrators, then I don’t know what is.University administrators, by their nature, prevent us—citizen-scholars that we are?...
...Veritas” in Harvard’s shield was originally intended to invoke the absolutes of divine revelation, the unassailable verities of Puritan religion. We understand it quite differently now. Truth is an aspiration, not a possession. Yet in this we—and all universities defined by the spirit of debate and free inquiry—challenge and even threaten those who would embrace unquestioned certainties. We must commit ourselves to the uncomfortable position of doubt, to the humility of always believing there is more to know, more to teach, more to understand...
Earlier this year, Gore’s documentary on global warming, ‘The Inconvenient Truth,’ won 2 Academy Awards. He has since traveled extensively to lecture about climate change...
...short. It is a work that aspires to examine the big universal themes: love, war, religion. It tells the story of men (and one woman) who can never escape the war they were caught in, who are eventually consumed by it, or wish they were. It tries to communicate truth, but the truth is too deeply hidden by its own attempts at complexity. Yes, “Tree of Smoke” is most definitely trying to say something urgent about the human condition, but that message remains lost, obfuscated by itself, obfuscated by everything that is not said...
...clear. If Al Gore gets into the presidential race, I'll eat my copy of An Inconvenient Truth. (The paperback, not the DVD.) I've spent a good deal of time with Gore this year, while writing a TIME cover story about him. I think he's staying out of the race - and I think I know why. But before I get into that, let me offer a few thoughts about what's not keeping him on the sidelines. I don't think Gore is staying out because of all the logistical difficulties that running would entail. Sure, it would...