The litigation relating to the strikes that killed the three Americans in Yemen prompted a degree of public reflection about the drone campaign and forced the government to clarify and defend some of its positions.
It's a painful irony of race relations in America that they command, or at least warrant and generally repay, a degree of critical reflection that can render a guy unable to actually have race relations, even — or perhaps especially — with those most similar to him, men that he might, but for the fathomless black-white thing, be friends with.
This was, it turned out, only half true, but it took a dozen years to find out that Kate Bush could bring to the subject of domestic bliss no less a degree of intense reflection and penetrating insight than she had employed on sex and death.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet It's a painful irony of race relations in America that they command, or at least warrant and generally repay, a degree of critical reflection that can render a guy unable to actually have race relations, even — or perhaps especially — with those most similar to him, men that he might, but for the fathomless black-white thing, be friends with.
There is nothing to be said in favour of Devlin's construal of homosexuality as 'addictive' or a 'miserable way of life' (Devlin 1965, p. v), but he himself does not rest much theoretical weight on this construal himself: what matters to him theoretically appears to be the beliefs of a population, backed up by the emotion of disgust and a degree of cool reflection.
Ten years on, a degree of Peace Corps reflection is in order.
"There is a degree of self-reflection, self-awareness, and psychological wholeness he arrived at after going through a period of working through his identity as the son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas," Richard Danzig, a Secretary of the Navy during the Clinton Administration, who was the last member of the Obama foreign-policy high command to join up, in the spring of 2007, said.
