Sentences with phrase «view of our political debate»

These Americans (who are becoming a larger fraction of the electorate every year) have a particularly skewed view of our political debate.
I like your noble view of political debate.

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Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.
Opposing views of right and wrong are best addressed and accommodated in a democratic political debate, with the judiciary serving the vital but secondary role of ensuring that basic rights are protected to prevent oppression of minorities by majoritarian rule.
The willingness to classify political views which should be respected, such as leaving or staying in the EU, as «extreme», shows the danger of focusing the extremism debate on beliefs we may find uncomfortable or disagree with, rather than on actions that threaten lives.»
These activities include, of course, the expression of political views and participation in debates over the issues of the day.
The party's documents say its «policies are based on the Christian view of Man and his responsibility before God,» but it rarely articulates that basis in political debate.
He said: «We're going to need to change by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn child.»
The Paxman - Brand interview, which went viral and triggered a debate about political apathy and voting, saw Paxman say to the actor: «If you can't be arsed to vote, why should we be arsed to listen to your political point of view
Against the image of Catholic Monarchy, he ranges images of the hermetic monarch: he is alluding to a specific kind of political view and mode of debating which might built a righteous republic.
I have just recently writing a long essay about the consequences of Thatcherism for a journal issue on the 30th anniversary of 1979 which the ippr are to publish next month, at which point you will be welcome to debate and indeed take issue with my own views on her economic and political legacy.
The way in which the manifesto is able to exploit much of the racist rhetoric about «bogus» refugees used by government and mainstream party political spokespeople during the debates on the Asylum and Immigration Act illustrates the impact of such debate in legitimising the views of fascist and far right groups.
That is a very different sort of smear, of a type that New Labour has in my view tended to favour over the years and one that has become, I think, more common on all sides as political debate has become less and less philosophically agonistic and more and more about branding.
He enclosed a note setting the view of the UK Statistics Authority, which said: «It would not be appropriate for the Authority to seek to intervene in political debate directly.
Within 30 minutes of the debate ending online polls confirmed a public view that the political pundits did not dare to contradict.
There is a widespread public view that the party mismanaged the economy when last in government, and the political debate for Labour is whether to continue to defend the Treasury record during the era of Gordon Brown's chancellorship, or instead admit error and move on.
In a further sign of the febrile atmosphere, the main broadcasters, including the BBC, have contacted the political parties to ask about their views on holding another televised leader debate.
Some couples like James Carville and Mary Matalin can endure having opposite political points of view, but I would grow weary constantly debating such polar perspectives.
While the commission's obtuseness or naiveté are open to debate, it is true that the commission did not view the political structures of American education as the most blatant problem.
A few of the images in it give away some left - leaning political bias, but the chapters full of general principles and the specific debate tactics used successfully by the author are extraordinarily valuable to anyone with a point of view they want to verify and defend.
Carlson gives us a journalist's - eye - view of what brought Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in the first place, depicting Vice President Richard Nixon as an awkward emissary who visited Moscow to further his own political career and made a spectacle at the American National Exhibition by debating the merits of kitchen appliances with the leader of the Soviet Union.
Although Farnham's Freehold sparks much debate among hardcore Heinlein fans and general SF readers alike for its political and sociological views, it was not my favorite of Heinlein's works by far.
The Plain Dealer's Steven Litt sees the current national mood and fraught political landscape in MOCA's Winter / Spring season: «It's clear that at least some of the artists whose works are on view are tapping into the same feelings emerging in the presidential debates.
«This exhibition offers an opportunity to view the pictures from the vantage point of the twenty - first century in a time when women's rights and the social mores that determine their behavior are being questioned, debated, and even protested in the political arena,» Lombino explains.
* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)
In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»
Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political «cause» rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.
He's just accusing the debate's organisers — naive as they are — of «political - motivation», with the implication being that he, his science, and his view on what the policy should be are above mere politics.
His view accords with that of a growing number of scientists concerned about the pursuit of «intensely political» areas of science, such as the debate over climate change, amid fears that views contrary to government policy were unwelcome.
The important question to ask, I argue, is how such an intolerant culture was allowed to develop in powerful political and academic institutions, and why the alarmist case was preferred by policymakers, who continue to make use of the binary view of the climate debate.
A great irony is that the Scientizers have different political views but share the expectation that science is the appropriate battleground for this debate, and have together thus far successfully kept the focus of attention on the climate science rather than policy and politics.
And all the time, government media and their allies dominate the political debate by trumpeting forecasts of doom, endlessly repeating the «right» messages, and making sure that dissident views are censored or ridiculed without right of recourse.
It carries the implication that climate science is otherwise free of debate, and that denialist views, rather than having lost the argument by the standard processes of science, have instead been suppressed by some form of political correctness.
The pursuit of «Veritas» which undergirds our intellectual life demands not only that each member of our community be able to debate politics freely, but also that we attend to the multitude of political views that exist in our nation.
Nuccitelli's and his colleagues» rage intensified when the Guardian's Political Science blog hosted views from Tamsin Edwards, Nottingham's Warren Pearce and Robert Wilson, each of whom criticised the framing of the political debate with respect toPolitical Science blog hosted views from Tamsin Edwards, Nottingham's Warren Pearce and Robert Wilson, each of whom criticised the framing of the political debate with respect topolitical debate with respect to science.
Nevertheless, global warming hypotheses have been narrowed in the press and public debate to a «consensus» view of catastrophic global warming in a political world that prizes agreement and confidence over exploration, and a media that thrives on crisis.
And I think it is fair to speculate that the high degree of association between political ideology and views on climate change, among those who responded, is characteristic of those who are heavily engaged in the debate.
The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).
The informal high - level event, which takes place in New York City the day before the opening of the U.N. General Assembly's annual General Debate, aims to «facilitate an exchange of views and to galvanize political will» for the Climate Change Conference to be held in Bali in December 2007.
That's not to say that even the radically human - centric view of the debate wouldn't choose some form of mitigation, but it does suggest that mitigation at all costs, and in the political form of that the agenda currently takes would likely be off the cards, so to speak, and would be seen for the deeply regressive tendency that it is.
It's only one side of the debate that is social and political costs for their views.
I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today.
Of Yiannopoulos, he said: «I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses todaOf Yiannopoulos, he said: «I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses todaof views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses todaof the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses todaof those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses todaof political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses todaof open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses todaof thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today.
«I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today,» Mercer wrote.
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