* * * The cost of this unwillingness to acknowledge the continuing centrality of race in the United States is pervasive and dispiriting.
We turn to Jefferson and Madison for guidance not because of the degree of their religiosity but because of the dominant roles they played in the founding of our country and the continuing centrality of their writings to the resolution of contemporary problems.
Ranging widely over the rise and fall of communism, the role of the church in National Socialist Germany and fascist Italy, Spain and Portugal, sectarian conflict in northern Ireland and the rise of radical Islam, Burleigh provides an overview of the continuing centrality of religion in European politics that is at turns informative and provocative, idiosyncratic and wildly unbalanced.
Yet what is remarkable in the face of the repeated and even heightened frisson that attends each saga of congressional imperial denial is the continuing centrality of the US dollar and treasury bonds in the global economy; the global determination of the US treasury to play its appointed role in sustaining this; and the acceptance of it by the rest of the world.
Nonetheless, the sensitivity of both PRC and Taiwanese actors to the WHA issue should not merely be seen as a source of data bias, but also as an indicator of the continuing centrality of traditional political concerns.
Although network structures changed over the 3 years, there was the continuing centrality of the independent staff employed to manage the partnerships, with their crucial role in holding partnerships together.
If the President, and many liberal politicians including Gov. Deval Patrick, have their way, the exceptions will continue to assume the centrality of social and political analyses and the outsiders will continue to be silenced -- not in obvious ways but in a more insidious fashion which can be seen most glaringly in the absence of policy.
The Palestinians, however, continue to assert the centrality of United Nations resolutions calling on Israel to dismantle settlements and to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders.
It means accepting that the spirit of inquiry should always be allowed to flourish and go wherever it is led, even if these are paths that continue to displace the centrality of the human or upset the usual ways of conceiving of the world.
