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We also discussed the civil liberties issues raised by the massive raid with lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the case at the blog thefreeforall.net.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family - law attorney with the Dallas firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, who serves as attorney ad litem for several children in the West Texas case, and lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the civil liberties aspects of the case at the blogthefreeforall.net.

He was a literary and social critic, historian, playwright, novelist, Catholic theologian and apologist, debater, and mystery writer.

Voices from various backgrounds and disciplines feature in this issue, from growth - skeptic film - maker Dave Gardner, to grassroots food sovereignty activists the Open Food Network, to the world's most quoted social critic, Noam Chomsky.

-- As the author, philosopher and social critic Jostein Gaarder said, live on television, in July 2007: «Norway is a nation of CO2 profiteers.»

Writing in the Guardian recently, the social critic George Monbiot commented, «So I don't blame people for giving up on politics... When a state - corporate nexus of power has bypassed democracy and made a mockery of the voting process, when an unreformed political system ensures that parties can be bought and sold, when politicians [of the main parties] stand and watch as public services are divvied up by a grubby cabal of privateers, what is left of this system that inspires us to participate?»

She wasn't just an artist playing games with images and mass media, she was a comedian and a social critic.

The statement comes as a protest against the Chinese government's detention of Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist and social critic who -LSB-...]

The statement comes as a protest against the Chinese government's detention of Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist and social critic who has been in custody for the last two months since he was arrested and detained by the Chinese authorities..

While Ligon in the course of his career has drawn from a variety of writers, critics and theorists, including Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Dyer, he has been particularly drawn to the African American writer and social critic Baldwin for his exploration of black, gay and bisexual identity, as well as his emphasis on the power of language as a structural tool of oppression.

Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, she uses film, photography, performance, installation and mixed media as platforms to communicate the complex experience of being a diasporic person and to wrestle with the notion of a disembodied identity.

«Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic,» organized by Exhibits USA; traveled to University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, 2000 - 2001.

Continuing on the woven histories of James Baldwin, the African American writer and social critic, and Jeanne Baret, the French botanist and sailor, the scene at Portikus presents these stories as fragmented pieces, precariously visible as glimpses of a whole.

In an Instagram post, Sulkowicz rebuked feminist and social critic Camille Paglia for publicly calling Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) «a «masochistic exercise» in which I neither «evolve» nor «move - on.»»

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

Walden, revisited features works by contemporary artists inspired by Walden — the pond; the book published in 1854 by natural history philosopher, social critic, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau; and the connection and disconnection between the two.

The distorted, barely recognizable profile views of the well - known stand - up comedian & social critic are the artist's placeholders for himself.

What / Why: «Walden, revisited features works by contemporary artists inspired by Walden — the pond; the book published in 1854 by natural history philosopher, social critic, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau; and the connection and disconnection between the two.

Known for her provocative combinations of text and image in her often sardonic assemblage works, L.A. - based artist Alexis Smith is an astute social critic.

The first, «What We Said The Last Time,» is a group of prints depicting pages from the social critic and novelist James Baldwin's 1953 essay «Stranger in the Village,» the inspiration behind Ligon's «Stranger» series.

Many of them are significant figures, but not widely known, such as scholar and social critic Harold Cruise (whose portrait graces the cover of the catalog); artist Faith Ringgold; Ron Kajiwara, a graphic designer at Vogue magazine; and civil rights activists James Farmer and Hugh Hurd, who was also an actor.

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

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

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 — 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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.

The comedian and social critic was blistering.

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.»

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.»

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).

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.»

Gauld is a social critic, but his sense of the world is guided less by the neo-Victorianism of today's conservatives than by a kind of New England transcendentalism — the exacting spirit of the old evangelicals.

I Am Not Your Negro Film Review by Kam Williams Oscar - Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin's Unfinished Manuscript When novelist / social critic James Baldwin passed away in 1987, he left behind an unfinished opus entitled «Remember This House.»

I Am Not Your Negro retains the spirit of Baldwin's work as a social critic, while continuing that work in its own way.

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.

First Reformed lays bare the work of a filmmaker operating as both spirit - guide and social critic, gravely and passionately showing humankind's destruction of their world for profit.

Grandin is not a social critic, and bad becoming normal is not a moral concept.

A civil rights organisation, Kogi Renaissance Group (KRG) has condemned the arrest and detention of a social critic, Austin Okai, on the alleged orders of the...

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.

[2] Noted scholar, social critic, and political activist Professor Noam Chomsky has commented that, while Bernie Sanders might call himself a socialist, he is actually an «honest New Dealer» as opposed to being an actual socialist

As my friend, writer, and social critic James Howard Kunstler suggests in The Long Emergency, all our central systems will unravel as we move into the end of oil period.

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

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.

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.

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.»

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?

Was he a radical social critic and reformer?

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.

The Liberator Devil would agree with Milton's Satan that «the mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav»n of Hell, a Hell of Heav» n.» So he models that freedom from the interdictions associated with the conventional Heaven that keep one from realizing one's full potential as a social critic.

«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.»

Social critic.