John Villasenor, a researcher at Brookings, asked 1,500 kids enrolled in schools across 49 states and Washington, DC, four questions about their thoughts on the First Amendment and found that not only did they possess a shocking ignorance about one of the country's foundational ideas, but that many condoned violence against people they disagreed with.
Astonishing, lucid, searing, brilliant, and shocking are the terms reviewers have used to describe this sweeping historical analysis of an idea that is foundational to Western civilization and has proven impossible to eradicate.
One of Christianity's foundational ideas is that Jesus Christ himself is "the Word of God".
Yet by the program's end, after Mr. Ferguson has introduced you to derivatives and all those other arcane financial instruments and practices, it becomes clear just how distorted that foundational idea — borrow money, pay it back — has become.
That's a foundational idea behind Buzzfeed's LGBTQ coverage, and that they've been so successful suggests a lot about the centrality and importance of social media in culture.
"A foundational idea for this show was that we are permanently in a condition of creating, being excited or horrified by our inventions," said Boryana Rossa, a Bulgarian-born artist and graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
The foundational idea of Gestalt therapy is that adults can choose how to lead their lives and they are at all times responsible for their own choices and actions.
Thus the Bloomsbury set evinced "the very English idea that aesthetic preferences are foundational for political and (especially) moral views".
More than a hundred years ago, in his foundational book, "Hind Swaraj," Mahatma Gandhi expressed the idea that the measuring rod of civilization is moral progress.
Greaves told me that "the idea that the Ten Commandments are foundational to US or Oklahoman law is absurd and obscene..
Greaves told me that "the idea that the Ten Commandments are foundational to US or Oklahoman law is absurd and obscene… I would argue that the message behind our monument speaks more directly to the formation of US Constitutional values than the Ten Commandments possibly could.
