Sentences with phrase «social critic»

The «poverty excuse» given by educators, politicians, and social critics alike is unfounded in evidence.

There exists a long history of artists as social critics from Goya to Manet.

The painful irony is that Nigerian troops have been victims of the insurgents, victims of local collaborators within the communities who betray them, victims of a political class which castigates them unnecessarily and are also victims of social critics who refuse to commend their efforts when they do well but ridiculed when they fall to the bullets or daggers of terrorists.

Notably, Raoul Peck's potent I Am Not Your Negro uses the words of fierce social critic James Baldwin to connect America's civil - rights past with our incendiary present.

Although many social critics have taken America as the particular scapegoat for contemporary evils, I have rejected anti-Americanism.

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

... SHE IS A HARSH SOCIAL CRITIC WITH A FACILITY FOR IMAGE - MAKING, LANGUAGE AND DESIGN.

There exists a long history of artists as social critics from Goya to Manet and today's artists are no different, as they confront politics, religion, and issues of race.

Ava DuVernay's 13th is an equally important film and worth a watch, but the lyricism and beauty of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript by social critic James Baldwin detailing his friendships and interactions with civil rights leaders, has stuck with me.

In a guest column at the Hollywood Reporter, social critic Camille Paglia pins down why so many women in Hollywood are apparently finding it difficult to accept their age with grace.

Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

Wendell Berry, the American social critic, has something to say about this in his book, The Unsettling of America.

Theologian and social critic Peter Leithart says, «the Devil has no stories.»

Ringgold's style combined folk art techniques with modernist images and content inspired by her contemporary outspoken social critics like James Baldwin, Lo Roi Jones and Amiri Baraka.

I'm all for a rigorously selective form of nostalgia, and that kind of nostalgia, practiced by our most astute social critics, is less blinding than liberating.

In 1797 two of the foremost radical social critics of their day Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin married in order to legitimate their unborn child.

Represented by National Commissioner and Chairman of the TEI Board, Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu, the INEC Chairman also described the late Professor as a fierce social critic, a fiery activist and an uncompromising patriot who was brutally honest and sincere to a fault.

Social critic William H. Whyte captured this cautious, middle - of - the - road spirit in his 1956 classic, The Organization Man, which contained a semisatirical set of instructions for «How to Cheat on a Personality Test.»

While leisure itself is not new, modern social critics have widely observed that leisure in America has taken on a uniqueness and increased relevance because it is no longer a luxury allowed only to the social elite.

«What a nation needs more than anything else,» writes social critic Martyn Eden, «is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a prophetic church within earshot.»

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged human rights activists in the country to emulate the virtues of late Nigeria's foremost social critic and selfless legal...

Among this century's writing prophets perhaps the most compelling social critics are the creators of dystopian fiction — those writers, filmmakers and other artists who imagine grim futures to teach us to read the signs of our own times.

This movement, founded by Norwegian social critic Arne Naess, rejects as» anthropocentric» the notion that humans have greater inherent worth than other life forms.

One of his novices, Ernesto Cardenal, was himself to become a poet of stature in his native Nicaragua as well as one of his country's most vociferous social critics.

Social critic Ernest van den Haag argues that any attempt to establish the moral wrongness of the death penalty must show that no crime ever deserves capital punishment; that is, he says, opponents of capital punishment must disprove the contention that there at least some convicted criminals who morally deserve execution.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

As an Episcopal clergyman, I have naturally looked to my own religious heritage for grounding and there found F. D. Maurice, a remarkable 19th century social critic, theologian and antagonist of the church - centered Oxford Movement.

Now comes O'Neal's fourth album, Respect, in which the Los Angeles Lakers center does not entirely disprove what the rock star and social critic Gregg Allman once said: «Rap?

Social critic Mary Wollstonecraft was philosophically against marriage but married William Godwin in 1796 after they discovered she was pregnant (she died in childbirth six months later), yet they had a «highly unconventional marriage during which they lived far enough apart to permit the continuing exchange of letters.»

But I just finished reading two books about what's happening on college campuses now — American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by sociologist Lisa Wade and Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by feminist and social critic Laura Kipnis — and I actually do feel quite blessed that my college days are long past.

Despite the nostalgia of some conservative social critics, the traditional father - as - helper - only model is outdated and outmoded, and it won't work nowadays.

Collini has called this the «disabling paradox of modern conservatism»; or «the deep structural dilemma of the modern Tory social critic: the forces that are destroying all that he loves are the forces he is ideologically committed to supporting».

As social critic Theodore Roszak states in The Cult of Information, «An excess of information may actually crowd out ideas, leaving the mind (young minds especially) distracted by sterile, disconnected facts, lost among the shapeless heaps of data.»

This deluge of shapeless heaps of data caused the late social critic Marshall McLuhan to conclude that schools would have to become «recognized as civil defense against media fallout.»

Drawing on earlier criticism of the organization society and its alienating effects, social critic Paul Goodman, already famous for his subversive Growing Up Absurd (1960), condemned the school system in toto with a slim volume called Compulsory Mis - education and the Community of Scholars (1962).

In Neil Postman's The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School, published in 1995, the seemingly clairvoyant social critic explains how «the computer and its associated technologies are awesome additions to a culture.»

A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he was the founder of the Trinity Forum and has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies.

Brett is a devastating social critic and master of equally devastating physical characterization.

YA / General Interest: The sharp social satire will not be lost on teens, who by nature are among the world's most observant social critics.

Macmillan is home to some of the greatest and most beloved writers around — from Sci - Fi and Fantasy luminaries Ursula K. LeGuin, Elizabeth Bear, and Orson Scott Card to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa to celebrated social critics Greil Marcus, Louis Menand, and Michel Foucault — and they're all available to read right now on Scribd and Oyster.

These supposedly ascetic and esthetic social critics have scored big and still benefit from their pioneering advertising and marketing techniques.

Previous events in the Creativity series have featured comedian and social critic Baratunde Thurston and acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

But while Cole was undoubtedly concerned with the land he painted, he was not exactly the convenient social critic the Met portrays.

Using very different strategies of montage, direct address, and narrative imagery, respectively, each of these artists is among our most eloquent social critics.