That's my argument
at Public Discourse today: Some astute observers have noticed the dimensions of the problem and called attention to it.
For a vigorous debate of these questions, readers can turn to an essay series
at Public Discourse, which finished yesterday, between professors Patrick Deneen (Notre Dame), Phillip Muñoz (Notre Dame), and Nathan Schlueter (Hillsdale).
The last of these possibilities may be the likeliest, as Robert P. George suggested nearly a year ago here
at Public Discourse.
First, as I note
at Public Discourse today in» Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of «Pro-Choice,»» the most up - to - the - minute philosophers in bioethics are dispensing with any «sharp distinction,» as Jon puts it, between the unborn child and the one who has been born.
At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Understanding why religious liberty became politically controversial requires more than just identifying....
At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act:
And that, as I explained yesterday
at Public Discourse, is simply not so.
Over
at Public Discourse, Greg Pfundstein and Meghan Grizzle report on the latest decision by the Gates Foundation to put more than $ 4 billion behind efforts to expand the use of contraceptives worldwide.
Not exact matches
Public discourse on marijuana legalization
at the federal level has only seriously considered the options of Congress making it legal or, conversely, empowering some sort of crackdown.
In the U.S., today's
public discourse on the sway of the Internet giants and their impact on society is
at the level of a mere whisper.
The clearest example of a deliberate adoption of one value
at the expense of another, a judicial resolution that continues to distort
public choice and moral
discourse, may be found in the 1973 abortion decision of Roe v. Wade.
Over
at the invaluable
Public Discourse site, Helen Alvare offers the first installment of a two - part series on the Supreme Court and family law.
Ryan T. Anderson is the William E. Simon Fellow
at The Heritage Foundation and editor of
Public Discourse.
The pontiff wrote: «The result is a dangerous dichotomy, since things can be said there that would be unacceptable in
public discourse, and people look to compensate for their own discontent by lashing out
at others.
It would be a great sadness if, looking back
at this period, historians concluded that these conservatives, by their uncritical partisanship, succeeded only in further discrediting the possibility of a religiously informed moral
discourse in
public life.
Richard John Neuhaus died on January 8, 2009,
at the age of seventy - two — a great loss to the magazine, to American
public discourse, and to his many friends.
The criticism of Reagan
at the time was that, by referring to «evil,» he was reintroducing to
public discourse a moral category that is dangerously close to the language of religion and divine destiny that America had long since outgrown.
Nonetheless,
at a minimum, we are left with the example of Christ that
public discourse can include a sharp / stern rebuke and a clever analogy.
The first three Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke — record a large
discourse of Jesus
at the end of his
public ministry about the signs of the end of the present age and the coming of the Son of Man.
Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue
at all, that our disputes over the role of religion in
public life and
discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.
That question was
at the center of a recent conference
at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «
public religious
discourse and America's pluralistic society.»
Regardless of the level of secularization in the society
at large, political actors tend to conflate ideology and spirituality, frequently leading to a
discourse that incorporates a particular religious perspective in an attempt to gain
public support.
you are wanting policies dictated WITHOUT allowing other beliefs (different from yours) to have a seat
at the table (i.e., you want to affect
public discourse & obviously care about my private beliefs enough to want to bar them from the discussion).
Instead it has deepened, spreading a peculiar kind of confusion into our
public discourse, political institutions, popular culture, the lives of religious believers, and entire communities of faith — including,
at times, the Church herself.
China's
public discourse has tended to advance a hegemonic view which people challenge
at their peril.
It's hard not to see the vague and generalized
public apologies that have become a part of our cultural
discourse as anything but attempts
at superficial reconciliation.
Look also
at the commentators themselves — when was the last time you heard someone utter a phrase that seriously questioned the narrow consensus that passes for
public discourse in this country?
At the same time, they stimulate a more explicit regulatory
discourse and ensures that the
public health agenda remains on the radar of
public scrutiny, rather than simply being left to the market mechanism to dictate.
In such places, intimidating text messages, threatening pamphlets and ominous posts on social media have already been effective
at influencing
public discourse and silencing defiant voices — long before the polarizing plebiscite campaign started.
Let's take a deeper look
at it now that a little time has passed and see what we can learn, since writing a column for the newspaper is a time - honored way to influence the
public discourse, whether to promote an idea, an...
Let's take a deeper look
at it now that a little time has passed and see what we can learn, since writing a column for the newspaper is a time - honored way to influence the
public discourse, whether to promote an idea, an opinion or your own reputation.
Ultimately, if the idea the political Samaritan — of introducing openly religious texts and motifs into political
discourse — leaves us uncomfortable, that may be because the business of negotiating different conceptions of the personal and
public good that lies
at the heart of politics, is an uncomfortable business.
Having completed his Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded doctoral studies that explored the
discourse and theory of the phenomenon here
at the University, he has since gone on to develop research that has had social, political and
public appeal.
He added that he had «too much faith» things had been handled properly
at the jail, he was surprised
at the level of neglect and issues
at the prison rarely rose to a high level of
public discourse discourse even during his campaign for mayor.
The former first family's continued stay
at the official residence despite handing over power became the subject of
public discourse, with Ghanaians agitating for their evacuation from the residency.
At Tuesday's County Legislature meeting the floor was opened for
public discourse on the special order of the day; a vote on two amendments to the Laws of Rockland County, both of them intended to aid local veterans.
According to Michael Nees, assistant professor of psychology
at Lafayette College, «A lot of the
public discourse to date about the capabilities of vehicle automation has been based on unrealistic expectations about the role of the human operator.»
As the Director of Policy and Global Partnerships
at OpenBiome, Carolyn Edelstein oversees OpenBiome's efforts to expand the availability of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation overseas, present its work to the
public, and contribute to the
discourse on the regulation of fecal microbiota.
Public discourse is filled with anger and confusion; people sit together in crowded spaces staring
at their own flickering screens, isolated by the technology intended to connect them.
Because many of the fetish topics are considered taboo, or
at least not polite
public discourse, those that feel they want to explore a fetish or even discuss it with someone can sometimes find themselves stymied.
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There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major categories
at the Oscars but there is no
public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Feature category.
«Our current
public discourse about children and filmed entertainment — the debates about the proper doling out of» screen time»
at different ages, etc. — starts from the assumption that they naturally occupy this larval position, and that it's our job as — the adult insects?
Although the film ultimately strikes a celebratory tone, the stark divisions it reveals offer an unsettling look
at the state of
public discourse.
Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and
Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look
at the 2013
public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social inequality, and urban policy.
The logic of standards - based reform is «fundamentally
at odds» with that of loose - coupling, because reform violates the premise that teachers should be buffered from outside interference and makes «what actually gets taught a matter of
public policy and open political
discourse.»
Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and
Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look
at the 2013
public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social...
«If we are attentive to the broader assault on
public education by the forces of neoliberalism,» said Madeloni, «we have to critique Darling - Hammond
at the very least for naïveté about these forces when she allows herself and her work to be taken up by them, when she allows the
discourses they use to bash teacher education to become part of her rationales.»
As the leader of the largest group of teachers in the nation, Weingarten is well - positioned to effect change in the education space, and she consistently ensures that key issues remain
at the forefront of American
public discourse.