Sentences with phrase «cultural questions over»

It is a case, writes Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog, that «pits familiar gladiators debating broad cultural questions over whether and how to make Big Tobacco pay.»

Not exact matches

The questions of peace and security over against violence are to be understood on economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on social and political levels.

Waiving for the moment the far from settled question of the extent that Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence were adapted to the particular social and cultural situation in which he found himself, we still must ask whether we can really see the vindication of hope for the higher values in a cumulative and secure achievement of orders of persuasion over brute force.

The question of peace and security over against violence is to be understood on the economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on the social and political levels.

Cultural warfare breaks out over our institutions — government, universities, schools, churches, media — pressing the question as to what we want our society to be, and who we want our children to become.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Over time, many traditional role expectations have been questioned and altered to suit changing economic, social and cultural needs.

To answer these important questions, it is significant that over 70 % of all bachelor degrees awarded in bicultural / multilingual / cultural education hail from Minority - Serving Institutions (MSIs).

In comparing the hysteria around Dana Schutz's painting to the lack of outrage over the painting by Henry Taylor of Philandro Castile, or Jordan Wolfson's extremely violent virtual reality film orchestrated by the sound of Chanukah blessings, I can only conclude the difference is due to a question of ownership of one's own cultural and historical narratives.

During her residency at CCS Bard, Christel will be working on her research concerning questions of art and curating as alternative sites for knowledge production, as well as teaching a series of seminars in which she will zoom in on the strategies artists and cultural producers have applied over the years to counter or confound established ideas and systems of knowledge.

One of the most important and celebrated contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has for over thirty years investigated issues of race, gender, and class, and her artwork continues to raise important questions about cultural identity and the politics of representation.

The work in question, which is being installed on the Chicago Cultural Center starting today, is, at least based on renderings, a characteristically winning outdoor scene from Marshall, with a radiant sun, cardinals aflutter as they hold a ribbon, and portraits of 20 women who have been involved in culture in the city over the years.

By invoking the extreme mediation of experience and meaning, Brown's work provocatively calls into question the power of image, as well as the appeal of surface over the substance of cultural forms.

Deconstructing the images and then repositioning them over stenciled backgrounds, with pieces of torn canvas and wax for texture, Opalka questions the role of the artist in the cultural and political climate we live in today.

He became notorious as a member of a generation of arab artists exploring the codes of conceptual art to question contemporary cultural identity and solo exhibitions of his work have been shown all over the world, and he has participated in numerous major group exhibitions — including, most recently, the 6th Quebec City Biennial and the 54th Venice Art Biennale.

Having explored the Anthropocene idea over the past eight years in my book, the large cultural - scientific «Anthropocene Project» at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and an ongoing special exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, I find it laudable that the recently published «Ecomodernist Manifesto» of the Breakthrough Institute attempts to encourage a debate about this question.