"It's a line that's about taste on the most superficial level, which fundamentally can only fall within the bigger discourses of skin color and discrimination, racism and white supremacist ideology.
The biggest discourse today is how the state can deliver, how the state can survive, how Afghanistan's diversity can remain intact, and how it can be a partner with the world community".
"It's hard to suddenly go into big discourses and talk about civil disobedience; my solution to talk about those matters is to make them sound relatable".
The same is true for NATO, where Germany has forwarded a number of initiatives on technical issues, but is seen as disengaged from the bigger strategic discourse on the future of the Western alliance in a changing global security landscape.
In many ways, the "just give up eating sandwiches for five years!" conversation is just a reworking of the "benefit claimants shouldn't have big TVs, then!" discourse that keeps cropping up: those ostensibly With, more through luck than judgment, telling those Without exactly what to buy and how to live.
Today, however, the big threat to our discourse is right-wing political correctness, which — unlike the liberal version — has lots of power and money behind it.
As for the controversial citizenship bills, both of which Mr. Kavanagh has co-sponsored, he said: "There's a big difference between civil discourse and no discourse.
In the U.S. public discourse, the big strain in the U.S.-Chinese economic relationship is the renminbi, and what many Americans view as the government-manipulated undervaluation of the Chinese currency.
Run Donald Trump Run! Hitherto Mr Trump's biggest contribution to political discourse in the US was his haranguing of President Barack Obama to prove that he was actually a US citizen, a campaign that attracted widespread scorn but nonetheless was successful in forcing the president to release a full-length birth certificate.
Nic Green's Trilogy is an exuberantly choreographed and unashamedly political piece of theatre that examines the arc of the women's movement from the passionate debates of the early 70s to the neutered discourse of big jugs and work/life juggling today.
