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...example, students must take a midterm today, on Good Friday, which, while not directly against the law, has deterred some from going home to celebrate with their families. In many classes, such as Sociology 67, lecture videos are unavailable, despite ample resources to fix this problem. We understand some professors’ aversion to putting lecture videos online to avoid tempting students to skip class, but we hardly think that taping the few lectures that fall on religious holidays constitute an “unreasonable burden” on Harvard or the professor in question. Nor should moving an examination...
...awkward position of bullshitting about something they haven’t read. Whether it’s at a 9 a.m. section or in passing conversation, we’re reluctant to admit that we just haven’t read it.It’s easy to understand why people bullshit in class. It’s a necessary skill, fabrication for survival, forced upon us by the combination of too little sleep and too many commitments. But some argue that faking it has become an integral part of American life. In 2005, philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt came...
This determinism appalled some friends such as Max Born, who thought it completely undermined the foundations of human morality. "I cannot understand how you can combine an entirely mechanistic universe with the freedom of the ethical individual," he wrote Einstein. "To me a deterministic world is quite abhorrent. Maybe you are right, and the world is that way, as you say. But at the moment it does not really look like it in physics--and even less so in the rest of the world...
...myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged...
...finance the war, attaching timetables for withdrawal of most military forces from Iraq in mid-to-late 2008. President Bush, however, has promised to veto the bill, delivering his usual warnings about undermining our soldiers, breaking promises to the Iraqi people, and the possibility of winning the war. We understand the Congressional Democrats’ frustration—the only way to make Bush see the light seems to be to force him to do so through legislation. But we oppose politically mandated timetables nonetheless. Let there be no mistake: America must withdraw from Iraq. But planning for such...