As New York University historian Diane Ravitch writes in her tour-de-force critique of the educational system, states began to write such vapid standards after watching the demise of the voluntary national history standards in the early 1990s.
Coming just a few days after the court-ordered release of the legal memo intended to justify the 2010 killing of American al Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki in Yemen, the task force's critique of the administration for its lack of of transparency rings especially true.
"We are, by the nature of the system, forced to critique and analyze and offer suggestions".
The combination of photos and texts, placed in a minimalist grid, forced a critique of assumptions about the Bowery without offering any concrete alternatives.
Though the novel is uneven, its pacing awkward as it brushes up against the film, its issues sometimes forced (the critique of McMansions, for example, is not relevant to the novel's emotional core), it is still worth reading.
To make sure that Nawaz felt the full force of his critique, Shafiq slipped an aside into his open letter to Nick Clegg.
Because of the sheer force of his critique of the idea of progress and of liberalism, however, the book is required reading for any student of social criticism and cultural history.
By describing her original book as "women's lib prehistory", they evaded the force of her critique and simultaneously used the aquatic ape (by means of guilty association) to question whether feminism could play any valid role in science.
Yet Africa plainly does not have a monopoly on international crime, and this unhappy and lopsided picture tends to give force to the critique that international justice is pro-western and controlled by the victors.
This would not show that the practices are objectively wrong, but it might mitigate the force of the critique.
We should neither exaggerate the force of such critiques nor suppose that a public relations campaign will end them.
