IT IS a measure of how much public discourse has changed that the argument this week on gay rights was about how rude politicians can be not to homosexuals, but to their opponents.
That the discussion is occurring at all, however, reflects how much the public discourse on embryonic stem cell research has changed in a short time.
Mansion tax objections show how much the national discourse is controlled by a tiny core of London homeowners, oblivious to everyone and everywhere else.
The idea that school, by itself, cannot cure poverty is hardly astonishing, but it is amazing how much of our political discourse is implicitly predicated on the notion that it can.
VICE caught up with Jacobson to talk about why Cooper's book is so popular in the subcultures of prison and hip-hop, whether Cooper's radio show set the stage for modern hucksters like Alex Jones, and how much of our unhinged discourse can really be attributed to one man.
The slump in the economy, coupled with the acrimonious discourse over how much weight test results and seniority should be given in determining a teacher's worth, have conspired to bring morale among the nation's teachers to its lowest point in more than 20 years, according to a survey of teachers, parents and students released on Wednesday.
Q2: I was just wondering how much of an intervention into the discourse around Palestine and Israel the film is.
But how much is timeless dead-tree literary discourse really paying attention to him or other literary novelists of his generation?
"I think the idea they didn't accomplish anything is silly to an absurd degree when you look at how much they did to change the discourse".
And, more importantly, how much of that sentiment drives our current discourse?
How much more healthy and productive would our discourse be if we placed probabilistic estimates on our beliefs and disputed how much weight each piece of evidence should have?
