the intellectual virtue of kindness

Andrew Sullivan, at the Daily Dish, posts an email I sent about the criticisms some have leveled against Harvard for asking students to take a pledge of kindness. I like Andrew's blog a lot, though I disagree with him often (he's a theist, for one thing):
"This notion that intellectual rigor and kindness do not make good bedfellows is really misguided. It seems predicated on that old unexamined (