While Gerard's piece was an outright review and Winer's a hybrid of news and critique, in the anachronistic kabuki of theatre journalism, both pieces were tantamount to wearing sneakers at a fancy-dress ball.
Even though contracted personnel do not outright reject or critique the model, the desire to obtain better working conditions and job security is clear.
Where do you draw the line between critique or parody and outright exploitation?
If the specifics of his monetary views are still unconventional, if not outright dismissed by most economists, his broad critique of a bloated government that needs to shrink to avoid catastrophe has become widely accepted in the Republican Party.
He examines the ways in which conservative thought went from outright opposition to capitalism to more muted critiques, ultimately reconciling itself to the workings and ethos of the market.
That critique did not extend, he said, to outright anti-Kremlin protest, let alone to espionage.
There will be folks who outright ignore the reviews or don't let negative critiques dissuade them from seeing a movie that they want to see or that looks good to them.
While I am quite critical of Senghor, he wrote powerfully of the limits of the mediations through which is life is known, and I differentiate between Senghor's critique of intellectualism from the perspective of lived experience and an outright hostility to the demands of reason from the standpoint of life.
"The American People" might have been — perhaps should have been — a dozen shorter books: a farce, a memoir, a collection of short biographies entitled "Our Gay Presidents," a polemic on AIDS, a blistering critique of mainstream American historians and their habit of ignoring, if not outright denying, the indisputable fact and presence of homosexuality in this country.
Various philosophers and logicians have answered the critique, arguing that existing formulations suffer from fallacies, question-begging assumptions, and even outright mathematical errors (Bowie 1982; Chalmers 1996b; Feferman 1996; Lewis 1969, 1979; Putnam 1975: 365 366, 1994; Shapiro 2003).
