Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…Through Dietrich’s character, Altar, the boss of the Chuck-a-Luck ranch and the criminal world it embodied, Lang critiqued the emerging Cold War ideology of the man as patriarchal figure and bread-winner. …”
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The Hidden Metaphysics of J. M. E. McTaggart’s Paradox: Influence on The Analytic Philosophy of Time by Adomas Šulcas

“…It is argued that if McTaggart’s metaphysical premises are accepted, the potential number of interpretations gets narrowed down; however, it is also shown that many of the critiques and discussions arising from the analytic philosophy of time’s discourse can be relatively easily resolved. …”
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“Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War by Subarno Chattarji

“…This essay analyses two of her novels in English translation, Novel Without a Name (1995) and Memories of a Pure Spring (2000), focusing on recurrent thematics that are central to these works, including the paradoxes of remembrance, critiques of war, the idea of fiction as testimony, and indictments of communist orthodoxy and double standards.…”
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Engagement patterns in the reporting of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Al Jazeera English and the Washington Post by Abdallah. Z. A Warshaga, Pei Soo Ang, Changpeng Huan

“…A total of 230 news texts (117 from WP and 113 from AJE) were examined, revealing differing engagement strategies of endorsement, attestation, and acknowledgement. AJE often critiqued US’s bias and gave precedence to Arab opposition to the Israeli occupation and US policies. …”
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Book Review: Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream by Hamid Nassaj

“…In this short article, fifteen critiques are presented to the author’s claim. The most important criticism is that the growth of extremist nationalism in the United States and Europe cannot be considered a defeat for the world because social change will generally take place in a sinusoidal, mixed-resistance path, and in the process of ups and downs. …”
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Urban Spaces and Architecturally Defined Identity in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts by Wayne E. Arnold

“…Throughout West’s narration, spaces and places within the city become social critiques, as these locations represent what Henri Lefebvre describes as abstract spaces: various spaces that are multifaceted in their functions due to their shifting—and abstract—relation with a larger environment. …”
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Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg by Nabeel Hamid

“…This paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011). …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINE OF KANT AS FINDING AUTHENTICAL FORMS OF ANTROPOLOGICAL METAPHYSICAL ФИЛОСОФСКОЕ УЧЕНИЕ КАНТА КАК ПОИСКИ АУТЕНТИЧНОЙ ФОРМЫ АНТРОПОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ МЕТАФИЗИКИ ФІЛОСО... by A. M. Malivskyi

“…According to this assertion the author gives heed to explication of
 Kant's famous anthropological intention of his "critiques". The author focuses attention on the ambivalent attitude of the philosopher on the issue of authenticity of metaphysical anthropology.…”
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Les HP aussi ! Une institution battue en brèche : antipsychiatrie et désaliénation en France by Jean-François Bert

“…Les conséquences ont été importantes, à la fois pour les malades – puisque s’est accéléré le processus d’humanisation de l’hôpital qui était depuis les années cinquante porté par les désaliénistes et par les anti-psychiatres, mais aussi pour les personnels soignants et les médecins. Les critiques portées contre l’institution, d’une rare violence, se sont poursuivies tout au long des années soixante-dix et ont eu des conséquences politiques inattendues dont l’engagement des psychiatres français contre l’usage politique de la santé mentale en Union soviétique.…”
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades and its implications for African Ancestor Christological discourse by I. Boaheng

“…Thomas Aquinas’ outstanding contribution to the development of this doctrine, this article explores Aquinas’ contributions to the doctrine of Christ’s descent into Hades. It then critiques ancestor Christology through the lens of the descent doctrine. …”
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Toward an ecosystem of non-fungible tokens from mapping public opinions on social media by Yunfei Xing, Justin Z. Zhang, Yuming He, Yueqi Li

“…Weibo users predominantly engaged in reviews and critiques, whereas Twitter and Reddit users emphasized personal experiences and perceptions. …”
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DECOLONIZING ISLAMIC STUDIES: A VIEW FROM THE SALAFIS SCHOOL OF THOUGHT by EMORDI PROMISE JUDE, OGHENERO KANO BENSON, CHUKWUKADIBIA CHIMAUZOM EZE, CYNTHIA UKA IYADE, AYINOR AZUBUIKE

“…Through the lens of critical thinking, we explore how the Salafi school both reinforces and critiques notions of Arab centrality in Islam. Furthermore, we examine potential tensions between Salafi interpretations and human autonomy and rights. …”
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Menace II Society? Urban Poverty and Underclass Narratives in American Movies by Thomas Halper and Douglas Muzzio

“…During the silent and Depression eras, movies featured the urban poor prominently, but afterwards their role drastically shrunk and did not regain its place until the black underclass films of the 1990s, which, in a softened version of ‘60s radical critiques, redefined the deserving poor as rejecting the dominant socioeconomic system in favor of an often hedonistic rebellion. …”
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COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY by S.A. Bong

“…Through their lived experience as survivors of pandemics, a feminist-postcolonial theology of radical hospitality first critiques biblical narratives of men’s hospitality to men. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book A Secular Age by Mahdi Abootalebi Yazdi, Ali Moradkhani, Meysam Sefid Khosh

“…This article, with a brief look at Taylor's work, examines the movement of the West (Western Europe and North America) from religious societies to secular societies, and after analyzing Taylor's theory of secularism, critiques and summarizes his ideas.…”
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Penser les rapports entre sciences et politique : enjeux historiographiques récents  by Jérôme Lamy

“…L’auteur de l’article revient ici sur quelques étapes de cette réflexion, montrant comment ces analyses sur la place des sciences dans les sociétés contemporaines ont donné lieu entre chercheurs à de vifs débats critiques. En effet, l’analyse sociale de sciences apparaît aujourd’hui comme une des voies efficaces des lectures globales des développements sociaux. …”
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Investigating and Completing Khanlari’s Theory on Metrical Units by Abbas Jahed Jah

“…Critiques emphasizing its positive aspects and aiming for improvement are largely absent. …”
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L' Esprit de chrétienté et la question de lʼidentité nationale française dans lʼœuvre polémique de Bernanos by Frano Vrančić

“…En partant de La Grande peur des bien-pensants (1931) et des Grands Cimetières sous la lune (1937), critiques virulentes du monde de la finance et des répressions franquistes pendant la guerre dʼEspagne, jusquʼà ses essais incisifs rédigés au service de la France Libre nous allons essayer de montrer la façon dont les convictions politico-religieuses du « Dostoïevski français » se reflètent dans son écriture qui, faut-il le rappeler, lui sert non seulement comme une source dʼintrospection, mais aussi comme le meilleur moyen dʼillustration et de défense de sa vision christique du monde. …”
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[In]toxic[ating] Bodies: Spirits and Spectral Biopolitics in The House of the Seven Gables by Emelia Abbé Robertson

“…Using The House of the Seven Gables as a case study, I argue that Hawthorne’s link between intoxication and toxic materials is less a means of critiquing the political and institutional systems at work in his moment, than a way to interrogate a particular narrative of American history. …”
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A Review of Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa by Jacob Dlamini (Polity Press, 2024). by Taurayi Munemo

“…Following this, it is clear why Dlamini decides to explore necropolitics through the notion of political martyrdom in critiquing South Africa’s racialised perspective of the sacrifices made by most South Africans during apartheid. …”
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