Sentences with phrase «culture wars over»

The culturally potent idiom of the dispassionate scientific narrative is being employed to fight culture wars over competing social and ethical values.»

The culturally potent idiom of the dispassionate scientific narrative is being employed to fight culture wars over competing social and ethical values.49 Nor is that to be seen as a defect.

None of this deals with passenger air travel which looms larger in the culture wars over energy policy that its objective significance as a source of emissions justifies.

While the Brooklyn Museum is dealing with a new round of outrage regarding A Fire In My Belly, conjuring a nagging sense that we are doomed to repeat the culture wars over and over again whether it is with Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano or Chris Ofili, the question remains what will be the lasting effects of this battle on Wojnarowicz's work, future curatorial decisions and the politics of art.

National standards also risk unleashing negative forces in American education — including further curricular narrowing, harmful effects on states that got standards right in the first place, and the possible rekindling of culture wars over what knowledge and which skills matter most (and who gets to decide).

«The culture wars over control of and focus for the National Curriculum may also be left to experts in education given the much more progressive views of the new Prime Minister and the Minister of Education.

The latest melee in the culture wars over public science funding comes from conservative CNS News, who apparently just discovered a government - funded study from 6 years ago on duck genitalia.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

There's the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing economies and the middle class they supported; ethno - nationalist backlash to the forces of globalization; sprawling culture wars over «identity politics» and far more.

Something's missing in the current culture war over the Ten Commandments.

Is the culture war over?

Some believe this is provision reflects shots fired in a culture war over the role and privilege of colleges.

Not exact matches

Kashuv has become part of a culture war far bigger and older than him taking place between liberals and conservatives over one of the most divisive issues in America.

What cracked the surface here, then, was the culture war being waged over same - sex marriage — not commitment to theological robustness and the essentials of the faith.

The standard argument goes something like this: the culture war is either over or increasingly irrelevant to younger generations of evangelicals, who respond to a much broader array....

Schickel's work» represented here by 175 full - color photographs» brings us face - to - face with the concerns of our own culture war, especially as it is manifested in clashes between traditionalists and liberals in the Church over the past three decades.

For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generations.

Leonard begins her remarks by saying, «It's not polite to call someone else's journal a crypto — white nationalist project, but...» Shenk insists that whatever agreements Dissent and American Affairs might have on political economy, «the culture wars aren't over.»

«The organizations that have sued the administration over the HHS contraceptives mandate have done so despite, not because of, the «culture war» aspect of the mandate,» said Stanley Carlson - Thies,...

Many suing over the HHS contraception mandate are doing so «despite, not because of, the culture war aspect.»

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism By Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press, 232 pages, $ 24.95 It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars»» the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied....

The religious right's remarkable influence over national politics crested a decade ago, and many young Evangelicals now weary of the culture wars.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

Talk about women mutlitation... talk about wherever islam goes it destroys the host culture, look at Persia, Egypt, or Turkey once the center of christianity... most islamic states where delivered by war... look around you today... what you see all over the world is exactly what islam has been from DAY ONE.

You may have heard it from Kirk Cameron or an anchor at Fox News or an army of culture warriors who have once again worked themselves into a frenzy over the «War on Christmas.»

In the short period of just over thirty years between the founding of the Republic and the Sino - Japanese war Chinese Muslims did their utmost to advance the culture of their people.

By calling a truce on wars over «culture,» and start fighting to save relationships with neighbors, no matter what they believe.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

A subtler form of wickedness will ensue, however, if this movie — with its obvious triumph of good over evil — is turned into the latest weapon for waging the culture wars.

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.

Males and females who have, sometimes impatiently, turned this into a fight, into a culture war, instead of the grace of conversation over time as we each listen to God's Word as the way forward.

The Culture War is over.

But after World War II, the Court began to insert itself into what James Madison called the «internal» objects of state governments, particularly the culture - forming institutions, including education, religion, marriage, and government's domestic control over matters of life and death.

Organized religion is the root of most evils today: Abuse of children and women, wars over religious territories, terrorists with radical religious beliefs, denial of a women's right to choose, denial of gay rights, oppression of differing cultures, corruption in churches, synagogues, mosques, etc..

After the Revolutionary War, fife and drum military music crossed over into popular culture because so many people had been trained to play, and fifes and drums were inexpensive to own.

Once you get past Barack Obama's «United States of America» speech in 2004, Pat Buchanan's thundering culture - wars declaration in 1992, Mario Cuomo's 1984 «Tale of Two Cities» masterpiece or Ted Kennedy's breathtaking «Dream Never Dies» manifesto in 1980, the only political players that have mattered at contrived conventions over the past 30 years have been the nominees themselves.

It tracks the births, marriages and deaths of millions of people, shedding light on the impacts of war, culture and disease over the last several centuries.

We know that on «culture war» issues, evidence alone won't win over die - hard opponents — climate change being a prime example.

But it's clear now that the nerds have won those culture wars: Technology has taken over the earth.

Over the past 50 years or so there has been a veritable war on fat in our culture and in that time we've also seen a dramatic increase in the rise of illnesses such as CVD, diabetes, Syndrome X, stroke, obesity, and a variety of inflammatory illnesses.

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

This lighthearted comedy pokes fun at the culture wars, and the debate over same - sex parenting.

This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary... It's a symbolic fight of our times, making [the film] a compelling and involving work.

With «Infinity War» still in theaters, «Deadpool 2» opening this week and «Han Solo» opening next week, pop culture geeks have a lot to choose from and argue over at the movies these days.

In theory, DC has an edge over Marvel in that their big heroes crossed over into mass popular culture in the 1940s and are recognisable to audiences who can't distinguish Cap's armoured black ally (Anthony Mackie as the Falcon) from Iron Man's armoured black ally (Don Cheadle as War Machine) or the colour - coded hot fighting chick on Steve Rogers» side (Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch) from the colour - coded hot fighting chick on Tony Stark's side (Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow).

Both have been chosen because of their hopes for a brighter future, but over the decades, Frank (now played by George Clooney) has become disillusioned, and it's up to Casey and Athena to bring him around and in the process save the world from... Well, I won't spoil it, but let's just say this is the sort of movie in which a discussion of global warming plays a supporting role and the senselessness of Hollywood movies and video games receives its obligatory culture - war spanking.

Lu Over the Wall Charming, if overlong, piffle about a childlike mermaid who befriends a morose teenage boy in a rock band, and in the process threatens to ignite culture war between human and merfolk in a Japanese fishing village.

The Last Jediis the latest picture from the Star Wars universe in it's plot to completely take over popular culture, one film / year at a time.

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.