His critique set off a frenzy of hand-wringing that continues to this day, particularly in the United States, as educators, policymakers and other observers bemoan the Balkanization of knowledge, the scientific illiteracy of the general public and the chronic academic turf wars that are all too easily lampooned.
Instead of just writing about it or making a traditional piece of art that offered a critique, he set up a company, printed bonds, and collected money from investors promising to take that money to Monte Carlo and bet it all using a special system that would return 20% on their investment.
The aforementioned Ebony article delves into a critique that sets the Cosby Show against the infestation of crack cocaine, and the era of mass incarceration Ronald Reagan ushered in during the early eighties.
A theatergoer's heart could be forgiven for sinking upon learning that the production she was scheduled to see at Theater for the New City was a riff on Dante called "The Divine Reality Comedy" and featured a "Born to Buy" critique set in "Paradise".
At the same time, Lovelace (predictably) plays into the expectations of the industry it critiques, setting a new precedent for the most x-rated material in a mainstream movie.
In 1904 after reading John Ruskin's Unto This Last, a critique of capitalism he set up a farm at Phoenix near Durban where he and his friends could live by the sweat of their brow.
His critique was set within an empirical study of the trade in Caribbean turtles that deployed evidence from eighteenth-century British colonial trade statistics to ascertain that hundreds of thousands of turtles were killed annually.
This difference – the difference between the ancients and the modern – was the cornerstone of Schlegel's critique and set the basis for his theoretical use of the concept Romantic, which became the key-concept in his comprehension and reevaluation of modernity.
He wrote The Trap, a critique of free trade, and set up the Referendum party, which called for a vote on euro entry for Britain on similar grounds.
Diana Hallman, in a book about "La Juive," concludes that the intention was not so much to celebrate the Jews as to set forth a "critique of the intolerance and despotism of political and religious institutions".
As Michael Pollan and other writers have set out a critique of feedlot beef over the past decade or so, it's become more difficult to regard marbled steak that glistens with fat as an American birthright.
