The four big smokestacks at the Doura power plant in Baghdad have always served as subversive truth-tellers.
"I will speak to you in the subversive language of truth," Mr. Letta told lawmakers in his debut speech to the lower house of Parliament after the swearing-in of his cabinet on Sunday.
In recasting her life whole, with all of its "blurred edges," unsettling ambiguities and glimmers of transcendence, she tells a story that generates its own subversive and powerful truth.
By requiring foreign journalists to obtain special visas, the United States has aligned itself with the likes of Iran, North Korea and Cuba, places where reporters are treated as dangerous subversives and disseminators of uncomfortable truths.
These days, the Murdochised version is incessant right across the press, so I go online where a diversity of news and comment can be found, then I look at Steve Bell [the Guardian cartoonist], who understands that truth is always subversive.
Presented as an honest portrayal of a day in the singer's life, this subversive film blurs the boundaries between truth and fiction.
Satire — which has a long and refreshingly subversive history as a form of truth-telling and effective social commentary — is Mr. Franken's comparative advantage in his new job and he should exploit this blessing, not deny it.
Is philosophy, the intransigent quest for truth (including the truth about politics and religion), inherently subversive?
Laurence Berns has reformulated the ancient dilemma posed by the trial of Socrates, "the greatest hero of freedom of thought"—a dilemma that exposes one of the roots of the perennial censorship controversy: Is philosophy, the intransigent quest for truth (including the truth about politics and religion), inherently subversive?
There is a small but subversive value in coming up with a consensus truth we can trust, however much it might differ from what the creators, directors, showrunners (or founding fathers) intended.
