I. Narrative Bound We are at the mercy of our own, rigid (nation-state) "rule sets" The "fit" between us and the enemy works to their advantage America paradoxically comes to embrace the role of enabler American denial -- the threat of our identity defeated -- immobilizes us.
In that book, Olson observed that as the number of small, organized factions in a society grows, the political culture becomes more divisive, the economy becomes more rigid and the nation loses vitality.
Like the architecture of Arata Isozaki and the fashions of Issey Miyake, Kuramata's diverse, idiosyncratic work challenges the Western view of Japan as a nation of rigid conformists.
Indeed, the vast majority of panelists appear to have been pre-selected by the Gates and Broad Foundations, Education Nation's co-sponsors, who through spending billions have been subverting democracy and imposing their rigid prescriptions on the nation's urban public schools.
Absent free migration, hundreds of thousands of immigrants might be consigned to lifelong poverty in their countries of origin, or at least in European nations where rigid labor market restrictions make it difficult for immigrants to get ahead than it is in Britain.
Dr. Frieden said New York's consent law is among the nation's most rigid.
Underlying these opposing trends was the precarious situation of the Jewish minority in a nation built on rigid racial categories.
In 1973, under Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, New York enacted some of the toughest, most rigid drug laws in the nation.
Families in Seoul spend a whopping 16% of their income on private tuition.Seoul childrenKorea's rigid social model aggravates the nation's extreme demographic problems.
On Tuesday, the French parliament passed sweeping measures to overhaul the nation's notoriously rigid labor market to make it easier for employers to hire and fire.
The slogan of her presidential campaign, "The republic that respects you," seemed to reflect what she called a deep attachment to an almost libertarian notion of "freedom over yourself," an uncommon ethic in a nation of often rigid social and political hierarchies.
