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Having written elaborate treatises on philosophy, social theory and the nature of communication--even his dissertation on the rise of "the public sphere" transformed media studies into a hardheaded discipline--he regularly takes to European Op-Ed pages with lucidity and passion. A man of the left who rose from the ruins of Nazi Germany and attempted to reconstruct Marxism on a reasoned and liberal basis, he was never sentimental about communism. Nor did he fall into the trap of thinking that the cold war was a plot perpetrated malevolently and unilaterally...
Still, the frats aren’t entirely separate from the final clubs’ sphere of influence. In the most obvious sense, some frat members are also members of final clubs...
...heady Paris art scene of the 1920s. Similarly, he zigzagged from earthy ochers, greens and browns to brilliant fantasy hues; from oil painting to collage and construction; and from works crowded with biomorphic creatures to watery cosmic spaces marked only by a floating line, a dot, a sphere or - most often - a sex symbol or two drawn from his private language of hieroglyphics. By 1934, when the artist was 41, all of Miró's signature elements were in place. By 1961, when he produced the celestial expanses of the three big Blue paintings - hanging together on one wall...
Only a short while ago, those in power in our society continued to oppress others who had been deemed unworthy of equal rights, such as slaves, women, and homosexuals, against whom the fight continues. I am inspired that society’s sphere of moral consideration is continually expanding. I acknowledge and applaud that PETA has assumed the role of society’s “watchdog” with respect to our treatment of animals...
...masterpiece Democracy in America—the author notes the remarkable “equality of conditions” in the United States and connects America’s socioeconomic equality to our democratic blessings. “By no possibility could equality ultimately fail to penetrate into the sphere of politics as everywhere else,” de Tocqueville wrote at that time. (Incidentally, a 2002 study of New World societies by the National Bureau of Economic Research backs him up, observing that “where there was extreme inequality, as in most of the societies...