Whether they are invalidating a law protecting partially born babies, or upholding one restricting the speech of pro «life counselors, their invocation of constitutional principles merely provides rhetorical cover for decisions dictated
by ideological goals.
Not exact matches
The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted
by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract
goal, the worldwide
ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced
by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»
No study has shown, however, that the
goals for separateness and independence (or happiness, for that matter) are obtained in the individual
by, among other things, separate sleeping arrangements for parents and children, nor do any studies demonstrate negative consequences for children or parents who choose to cosleep for
ideological or emotional purposes, except when cosleeping is part of a larger psychologically disordered set of family relationships or when cosleeping occurs under dangerous social or physical circumstances.
A party that continually loses elections because it's too far removed from the political center or because it appeals to too narrow a range of voters should seek to remedy that
by expanding its coalition or moving toward the median voter — perhaps
by compromising some of its
ideological goals.
Others with an
ideological right - wing libertarian philosophy and funded
by right - wing think tanks, distort the science to influence public opinion with the real
goal of preventing governments from acting against global warming.