Its publication set off contentious debates in several online communities, including FreeRepublic and Salon.
The order against the book's publication set off a widespread debate over the boundaries between intellectual property rights and freedom of expression, pitting arguments about literary originality against claims about racial justice.
Before The Post's article was published, its impending publication set off a mild panic among White House staff members, with the press secretary, Sean Spicer; the deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders; and the communications director, Mike Dubke, summoned to the Oval Office in the middle of the afternoon.
The documents he took from his job as an N.S.A. contractor and provided to The Guardian, The Post and other publications have set off the most significant public debate in decades about surveillance and data collection by the government.
After the publication of Orientalism set off a firestorm of criticism from every angle of the east-west divide, Said declared, in a retrospective essay, that "the orient-versus-occident opposition was both misleading and highly undesirable; the less it was given credit for actually describing anything more than a fascinating history of interpretations and contesting interests, the better".
The report's 1967 publication, by Dial Press, set off a debate over its findings and frenzied speculation about its authorship..
The report's 1967 publication, by Dial Press, set off a debate over its findings and frenzied speculation about its authorship.
Ms. Haskell also goes over the autobiographical correspondences between Margaret Mitchell and her two creations, Scarlett and Melanie, contrasting the author's tomboy childhood and flapperesque youth with the ladylike gentility she assumed later in life; her fierce determination to become a writer and her fear of the social backlash the publication of her novel might set off.
In a statement in August, Yale University Press reported that it had decided to remove cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how the cartoons had led to violent protests in 2005; experts had warned that their publication in the book might set off new outbreaks of deadly violence.
The original publication of the cartoons, in 2005, set off widespread street demonstrations in the Middle East and threats of boycotts of Danish products by Muslim countries.
This probe, however, was set off by the publication by all banks in March of data on the race of high-interest borrowers, as required by a new amendment to an old law.
