Elshtain on war:
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“I think the great Hollywood directors did a much better job of dealing with [issues of war and violence] than the academy. You just can’t do better than The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or The Searchers. Someday I’m going to teach a course called ‘Movies and the Moral Life.’”
“It is terrible when political or intellectual dissent is redescribed as a psychological problem: ‘You make me uncomfortable.’ When this happens in the classroom, it means that the teacher is evading her responsibility to help students grow up by by…[listening] to a disagreement without personalizing and psychologizing the encounter. If making someone feel uncomfortable is not permitted, then dissent and discussion are not permitted.”
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