"For quite a while," Peter Berkowitz notes, "leading aca-demic liberals and their best-known critics formed an unwit-ting alliance, promulgating the view that liberal politicaltheory" ignores the whole subject of virtue and cultivation (p.170). If that view is correct, this neglect not only...
Lost in this dialogue has been a meaningful consideration of legal issues on which opposing activists might agree: contraception, equal pay for equal work, or state support for parental leave. If we no longer view pro-life feminism as monolithic, we can identify areas of agreement between some...
And I think that's what shocks me, alarms me, most of among liberals as well as conservatives, that people had just given up on that idea. And you get people referring to constitutional rights and and some adopting it rather than seeing it as the very flawed decisi...
Once Nanking GMT Administration founded,all aspects endeavoured to establish a series of out-standing universities in order to adapt the surging National-state appeals. Consequently Tsinghua,a previously preparatory college,came from behind and became a paradigm of these booming universities. It sprang ...
The concept of race is a bit like the concept of God from the Freudian point of view. It is a kind of wish fulfillment:We would that it were so. We would that race explained fundamental differences between people. We would that if some races were better than others, we would be a me...
We further support a minimum wage that allows the working poor to strive within reach of escaping poverty. We explicitly link these two goals, so that an alliance of moderate liberals and moderate conservatives can together achieve great good for those in America who are striving to get ahead....
Postmodernists view the terms (what other philosophers have traditionally taken to be the fundamental units or unities of reality substance, self, God, knowledge itself, the notion of reality versus appearance)as attempts to mask differences and to suppress them. These terms are mistaken attempts ...
Although standards of living improved significantly in the 1980s, Deng’s reforms were not without criticism. Conservatives asserted that Deng opened China once again to various social evils, and an overall increase in materialistic thinking, while liberals attacked Deng’s unrelenting stance on the ...
This essential nucleus, thus stripped, reveals itself as the systematic direction of the moulding forces that play upon the developing citizen, towards his improvement, with a view to a new generation of individuals, a new social state, at a higher level than that at which we live to-day, ...
Traditionally women looked to husbands to protect and provide for them. However, with the rise of the welfare state, this role is increasingly usurped by government, resulting in what Farrell calls "Government as a Substitute Husband". The burden on men is not reduced. On the contrary, governm...