Sentences with phrase «authoritarianism at»

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At one point, he doubts whether «inventing names, noting accents, improvising histories and nationalities» is an adequate response to technological authoritarianism and looming apocalypse.

At a moment like this when there doesn't seem to be a lot going right — ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence by ideological fanatics; feckless responses to both from the democracies — it's good to be reminded that things can be different, and in fact were different, not so very long ago.

The movie depicts a young and creative teacher battling what appears to be the unthinking authoritarianism of the school as well as his students» (at first) uncomprehending resistance to his teaching method.

Roman Catholicism did manage to maintain a distinctive identity during the period of liberal Protestant capitulation to secularism, but according to Marsden it did so «at the price of accepting Roman authoritarianism and severe restraints on its intellectual life.»

Not to be outdone, David Remnick in the New Yorker weighed in with «The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.

Perhaps what we are witnessing here, at the end of the New Labour story, is the Labour party's final abandonment of the «politics of conscience», of the protest tradition, and its full transformation into a party of executive authoritarianism.

The home secretary's knee - jerk authoritarianism has no bearing to what happened at the anti-cuts protest.

«I'm not denying that there is a chunk of people who turned to the Liberal Democrats at the height of Blair's authoritarianism and his fascination with Bush and Cheney and said «Ha, these Liberal Democrats, they're the leftwing party I want.

Clearly there is a chunk of people who, I totally understand, turned to the Liberal Democrats at the height of [Tony] Blair's authoritarianism and his fascination with [George] Bush and [Dick] Cheney].

At age 30 or 33, the participants completed measures that gauged their economic conservatism, political cynicism, racism, authoritarianism, and attitudes about gender inequality.

Several recurring thematic elements are common to a number of Hauff's movies, such as the struggle of an individual against authoritarianism, whether perpetrated by a parent (as in Paule Pauländer (1976)-RRB-, a community (Mathias Kneissl (1970)-RRB-, an institution (Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (The Brutalization of Franz Blum, 1974), or the police and security apparatus of the state or society at large (Stammheim and Knife in the Head).

An often uproarious new comedy from the creator of «Veep» takes aim at authoritarianism.

Intolerance and authoritarianism appear, by some measures, on the rise both at home and abroad.

«What might have seemed cartoony or fun at first,» Mr. Deitch said, has grown into «something serious that feels especially relevant today — with a very important message about an encroaching authoritarianism.»

The real issue is whether humans can arrive at a sustainable long term accommodation with the planet voluntarily and consensually (Democracy) or whether it must be imposed at the direction of high minded individuals who are better than, or know more than, everyone else (Authoritarianism).

The real fear, and it tends to be highly correlated (studies keep showing, anyway) with strong «conservatism» and even more, with authoritarianism (at least libertarians, once they get a great grasp of the facts, if not zealots, can start to change their perspective on CC) is both fear of change, and fear of a wildly myopically presumed macroeconomic harm.