Sentences with phrase «leftist thought»

A good occasion for reexamining the religion and politics of left and right is offered by Richard Rorty's recent little book, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth - Century America (Harvard University Press).

OMB Watch was a leftist think tank and advocacy group; rather subjective view point there.

They are joined by Carmel Martin and Catherine Brown, vice-presidents of the Center for American Progress, a leftist think tank that is financially supported by the teachers unions.

A sine qua non of leftist thinking is that anyone who dares challenge its version of truth is, axiomatically and inescapably, a «racist»?

Not exact matches

It sounds rather evangelical, though Avakian is, as you may have guessed, a leftist, and in fact the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party» which seems, if we understand Revolution, the broadsheet on whose back page that quote appears, to think Mao too conservative.

He also seemed to think atheism, which at the time was most consp - icously represented by Marxists and other far leftists, was dead to a proper sense of awe and wonder.

Some might think Podhoretz was unfortunate in his friends and others might think his friends were unfortunate in him, but he is grateful for the contentious entanglement of friendships and ideas that has brought him to where he is as one who intends to challenge «the regnant leftist culture that pollutes the spiritual and cultural air we all breathe, and to do so with all my heart and all my soul and all my might.»

Among think tanks quoted on NPR, the most citations were of the Brookings Institution, Kevin Phillips's American Political Research and the pro-business American Enterprise Institute — none known for leftist views.

@Paranoia: Mainly the only thing I can think is because I'm not leftist by any stretch and rarely agree with any leftist policies.

One can find historical precedent for today's ventures in «second thoughts» in the disillusioned soul - searchings of an earlier generation of leftist radicals — the former Communists and fellow - travelers of the Stalin era.

The same leftist buffoons who shout «you can't legislate morality» to keep abortions available probably think they are good Christians (the ones who aren't Atheists).

We may learn little if, before anybody has properly studied this complex election, everybody just says what they thought already, repeating their favourite leftist or New Labour mantras, about losing C2s over immigration, or failing to inspire with Labour values.

I think it's also safe to say that most of us also have strongly leftist and / or anarchist political sympathies as well.

Ken Loach (Winner, Palme - d'or 2006, The Wind that Shakes the Barley) paints a romantic drama about a leftist leader, and a 1930s Ireland that celebrates free speech and thought in the face of oppressive dogma.

Ken Loach (Winner, Palme - d'or 2006, The Wind that Shakes the Barley) paints a romantic drama about a leftist leader, and a 1930s Ireland that celebrates free speech and thought in the face of oppressive dogma.

«Conservative pundits are quick to cite what I think of as a straw man — that there's some kind of leftist boogeyman coming to take away the Second Amendment, and to my knowledge, there never has actually been one,» the artist Joshua... Read More

Too many leftist activists are therefore tending to side with the big polluters because they think they're standing in solidarity with the world's poor.

At least since the 60s, schools have been indoctrinating students with leftist ideas, and more recently, dumbing them down using common core math so they can not understand math — leftists in the USA have produced entire generations if idiots that can't write, read, or think — and every one of them who made it to voting age voted for Hillary.

298 Mr. Know It All in Fantasy Land thinks «the Washington Post — about as leftist as it gets».

Do you really think that you can extrapolate from questions on opinions about whether climate change is predominantly anthropogenic in nature to demographic characteristics of people who «speak out» as «climate contrarians» camp, or who are «leftists?»

I don't think many leftist appreciate it being correctly compared to completely static aristocracy of a declining system but there you have it.

GaryM, the leftists pay to charities in addition to taxes that would help people, infrastructure, etc. rls, we don't have to guess the rightist way of thinking.

Does anyone seriously think that China, India and Brazil are as gullible and superstitious as the average Western - educated, flip flop - wearing science astrologers that are taking government grants to spin doomsday tales about evil American businesses causing a climate Armageddon as an excuse to ramp up taxes on all factors of production to fuel an out - of - control Leftist - liberal government grown too big to fail?

The Duarte article unfortunately had no examples where a leftist scientific view was wrong until some rightist came along with the correct thought process.

A frightening thought is that these Leftist «ideologues» are of the very same tribe that we are to entrust with global energy policy.

Although Leftists like Christopher Hitchens seem to have excused the methods the Bolsheviks employed to consolidate power as a necessary part of the Russian revolution, hopefully French philosopher Jean - Paul Sartre evolved enough before he died to appreciate error in such thinking as he witnessed Communist totalitarianism unfold under his nose.

(Its debate director said the school continues a tradition of «synthesizing leftist American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy.»)

Leftists, progressives, Democrats, liberals, socialists, crony - capitalists, communists, politicians, UN bureaucrats, crony - scientists, mainstream journalists and Hollywood celebrities are acknowledged as the world's climate - porn stars, as well as being in dire need of a basic manual titled «Climate for Dummies»... their statements regarding global warming and climate change continue to be living proof that stuck - on - stupid and cluelessness are in a constant battle to dominate the leftward thinking brain...

I have no idea why it all started and I DO NOT THINK it is a constructed «conspiracy» from some leftist cabal.

Without the double think the meme dies which is why leftist «consensus» is stuck with their talking points.

I don't think there is any unanimous «leftist argument», or even «rightist» one.

It blows my mind that Leftists, who you would think would be the last people to trust a financial market trading scheme, are giving cap - and - trade such a free pass.

The fact that Canada's leftist secular humanist feminists still think that their risk comes from a decaying and docile Christianity instead of a confident and growing radical Islam is liberalism's Maginot Line, built to defend against a make - believe threat from a generation ago, not the real threat of today.