posted on June 1, 2005 06:22:54 PM
Anna Quindlen is why I still subscribe to Newsweek. I look forward to her every other week last page columns. This one is apropos I think, especially here.
Today's graduates have also learned that having strongly held beliefs means expressing contempt for those of others, particularly if you are a cable-TV talk-show host and can interrupt incessantly or extravagantly mime disparagement. (Note to the class of 2005: bad manners are bad manners, whether at the dinner table or on-camera.) Politicians and pundits are now no better than corner men in an ideological prizefight.
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Dick Cheney: "I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11..."
posted on June 2, 2005 11:33:07 AM
Prof, obviously it's safe for most people to not question themselves or how they arrived at the conclusions in their heads. It's safer to be narrow-minded than to challenge yourself with even the thought of a different way of thinking, let alone trying to understand those different views. It's like a tree with one branch... that's all you'll ever be.
