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Monthly Archives October 2007

Big Soildier on Campus

Harvard’s new president, Drew Faust, gave her inaugural address last Friday–and was accompanied during the closing recessional by none other than seven members of Harvard’s ROTC corps. The flag-bearing color guard included students from Harvard’s Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine squads, and bears tremendous symbolic significance.
Harvard has not hosted an on-campus ROTC program since [...]

Posted 22 October 2007 † Ray Watkins § Language § Uncategorized § War § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Moral Hazzard, Education, and Health Care

According to our collective mythology about schools as the great equalizing force in American society, we want — or say we want — public schools to make a difference. But the reality on the ground often makes a mockery of that ideal. In recent years, public schools have been infected by a system of hidden [...]

Posted 19 October 2007 † Ray Watkins § Economics § Language § Writing ‡ Comments (4) °

Guy Clark and Emmylou Harris: Black Diamond Strings

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Posted 17 October 2007 † Ray Watkins § Miscellaneous ‡ Comments (0) °

Love Me, Love Me, I’m A Liberal

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I’ve grown older and wiser
And that’s why I’m turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal
Love Me, I’m a Liberal, Phil Ochs
The liberal establishment is worried that the more sophisticated classbased [...]

Posted 15 October 2007 † Ray Watkins § Economics § Online Places § Union § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °