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To: Lane3 who wrote (2212)3/12/2002 9:27:47 AM
From: Poet  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Interesting editorial by Will, Karen, thanks for posting it.

Lately I'm finding that I agree with parts of his missives, rather than disagreeing with them as a whole. I'm wondering if this is a change in my perspective, his style, or perhaps both. Have you or anyone else noticed a shift in Will's stances?

I liked this, for instance:
Gone, too, is the intelligentsia's consensus that the only absolute is relativism -- the doctrine that all values are mere "social constructs," hence equally arbitrary and evanescent. Since Sept. 11, America's mind is no longer so open that everything of value falls out.

But was disappointed to see him spouting the old right-wing rhetoric that the Academy is a den of seething (and out-of-touch) liberals:
It is axiomatic that everything changes except the avant garde, which in America is frozen in an adversarial pose toward the nation beyond the campus gates.
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