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Author : Bret Stephens
Release : 2017-12-17
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Book Synopsis The Dying Art of Disagreement by : Bret Stephens
Download or read book The Dying Art of Disagreement written by Bret Stephens. This book was released on 2017-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Lowy Institute Media Lecture
Author : Emma Gavriliuc
Release : 2020-11-17
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Book Rating : 659/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Art of Disagreement Through Introspection and Analysis by : Emma Gavriliuc
Download or read book The Art of Disagreement Through Introspection and Analysis written by Emma Gavriliuc. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a necessity, as well as true beauty, deep within the art of disagreement.It is an integral part of any society. Disagreement is where people find their unaltered individuality. It is how idiosyncrasies are publicly formed. Refusal is where we find our freedom, acknowledge our progress and adjure our perspectives.Within disagreement and in the absence of complacency there is power. Disagreement is a key ingredient in the recipe for success and for a flourishing society. Yet it seems that we are failing disagreement in all its power."
Author : Bret Stephens
Release : 2015-10-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 218/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis America in Retreat by : Bret Stephens
Download or read book America in Retreat written by Bret Stephens. This book was released on 2015-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans are weary of acting as the world's policeman, especially in the face of our unending economic troubles at home. President Obama stands for cutting defense budgets, leaving Afghanistan, abandoning Iraq, appeasing Russia, and offering premature declarations of victory over al Qaeda. Meanwhile, some Republicans now also argue for a far smaller and less expensive American footprint abroad. Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens rejects this view. As he sees it, retreating from our global responsibilities will ultimately exact a devastating price to our security and prosperity. In the 1930s, it was the weakness and vacillation of the democracies that led to war and genocide. Today the regimes in Tehran, Damascus, Beijing, and Moscow continue to test America's will. Americans have often been tempted to turn our backs on a world that fails to live up to our idealism and doesn't easily bend. But succumbing to that temptation always leads to tragedy. The mantle of global leadership is a responsibility we must shoulder for the sake of our freedom, our prosperity, and our safety"--
Author : Michael Brautigam
Release : 2019-07-11
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 032/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Engaging Ethically in a Strange New World by : Michael Brautigam
Download or read book Engaging Ethically in a Strange New World written by Michael Brautigam. This book was released on 2019-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians in Australia are facing serious ethical issues. Contentious topics, such as same-sex marriage, the assisted-dying bill, gender fluidity, and attempts to censor Jesus-talk in the schoolyard, present serious challenges and require us to think more deeply about how we are to live in a strange new world. This volume presents papers from the 2018 Paradosis Conference at Melbourne School of Theology and brings together a number of voices to explore doctrinal foundations and their practical outworkings in the fields of biblical studies, systematic and practical theology, Islamic studies, and medical ethics. Contributors examine questions of contemporary interest as they pertain to both the Christian community itself and to Christian engagement with wider society. Part 1 comprises papers examining ethics in the Old Testament wisdom books, decision-making according to an early church model, the theological history of ethics, and the pastoral implications of Jonathan Edwards’s reflections on beauty. Part 2 investigates the ramifications for Christian social ethics of the paradox of Jesus’s stringent moral commands and his inclusive lifestyle, Islam’s approach to homosexuality, virtue ethics as an alternative narrative within the “assisted-dying” debate, and the role of docility as a virtue in teaching, pastoral theology, and mission.
Author : Bradford Vivian
Release : 2022-12-06
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Campus Misinformation by : Bradford Vivian
Download or read book Campus Misinformation written by Bradford Vivian. This book was released on 2022-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive examination of how pundits and politicians manufactured the campus free speech crisis--and created a genuine challenge to academic freedom in the process. If we listen to the politicians and pundits, college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal orthodoxy and forcibly silence anyone who dares to disagree. These commentators lament the demise of free speech and academic freedom. But what is really happening on college campuses? Campus Misinformation shows how misinformation about colleges and universities has proliferated in recent years, with potentially dangerous results. Popular but highly misleading claims about a so-called free speech crisis and a lack of intellectual diversity on college campuses emerged in the mid-2010s and continue to shape public discourse about higher education across party lines. Such disingenuous claims impede constructive deliberation about higher learning while normalizing suspect ideas about First Amendment freedoms and democratic participation. Taking a non-partisan approach, Bradford Vivian argues that reporting on campus culture has grossly exaggerated the importance and representativeness of a small number of isolated events; misleadingly advocated for an artificial parity between liberals and conservatives as true viewpoint diversity; mischaracterized the use of trigger warnings and safe spaces; and purposefully confused critique and protest with censorship and "cancel culture." Organizations and think tanks generate pseudoscientific data to support this discourse, then advocate for free speech in highly specific ways that actually limit speech in general. In the name of free speech and viewpoint diversity, we now see restrictions on the right to protest and laws banning certain books, theories, and subjects from schools. By deconstructing the political and rhetorical development of the free speech crisis, Vivian not only provides a powerful corrective to contemporary views of higher education, but provides a blueprint for readers to identify and challenge misleading language--and to understand the true threats to our freedoms.
