Word: wrongheadedness
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Their answers surprised me, perhaps because we in the U.S. are tempted to see the triumph of democracy in Eastern Europe wholly through an American prism: as a triumph of American values as opposed to human values. The voices I heard in East Berlin told me this is a mistake...
Now to the other half of the problem. Many law faculty members, and here the critical legal studies people are clearly the worst offenders, not only do not appreciate or understand what it means to prove something, but they believe it is wrongheaded to try to do so. For the...
"This is a most dangerous and wrongheaded precedent," said Rep. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.). He scoffed at claims that dairy producers need the price increase to offset the increased cost of feed resulting from the drought, saying cattle and sheep ranchers and poultry producers are not getting anything similar in...
If the wrong is obvious, the ways to right it are not. Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming, among others, strongly objected to the $20,000 payments: "Honor doesn't come with a dollar sign on it, and you don't buy it back." The objection is disingenuous, since Wallop thinks...
Television gets high marks for inclusiveness, with few notable omissions (cable gets short shrift, and commercials are mentioned only in passing). Organization, however, is a problem; too often it seems arbitrary or wrongheaded. An episode about TV drama contains no mention of Roots, the highest-rated mini-series in history...