In a 2001 review of Midas Dekkers ' Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, Singer argues that sexual activities between humans and animals that result in harm to the animal should remain illegal, but that " sex with animals does not always involve cruelty " and that " mutually satisfying activities " of a sexual nature may sometimes occur between humans and animals, and that writer Otto Soyka would condone such activities.

James Berardinelli, in his review of the film, argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation, stating :" Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader append the perfect conclusion to Taxi Driver.

A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.

A critical review of MI theory argues that there is little empirical evidence to support it:

However, Jeffrey Burton Russell in his review of the formation of the Flat Earth myth, which was invented in the past 2 centuries, argues that there were sufficient lines of evidence and widespread acceptance among academics from the times of the early church from notable figures like Augustine of the spherical earth.

In his review of the history of sortition implemented in various degrees in Greece, Florence and during the French revolution in " The Political Potential of Sortition ", Dowlen argues that any use of sortition, whether to elect leaders, or to form the body that elects leaders, has helped develop and strengthen inclusion and stability in democratic systems.

In his 2008 review, Robinson does not endorse the forgery arguments but argues that " a thermoluminescence test for the Phaistos Disc is imperative.

" In 1996, The New York Times published a favourable review by Bruno Maddox in which he says: " Mr. Hitchens, a columnist at Vanity Fair and The Nation, is rather convincing " and " Hitchens argues his case with consummate style ".

According to the CBD, " The lawsuit argues that the regulations violate the Endangered Species Act and did not go through the required public review process.

In a review in the The New York Times, Adam Cohen found Free Culture to be a " powerfully argued and important analysis ," where Lessig argues persuasively that we are in a crisis of cultural impoverishment.

This article contrasts American bar review courses against the 18-month cram schools used in Japan, Germany, Korea, and Taiwan, and argues that the short length of American bar review is due to the superior pedagogical methods of American law schools and the American tradition of relatively easy access to the legal profession ( in comparison to most countries ).</ ref > For bar review, most students in the United States attend a private bar exam review course which is provided by a third-party company and not their law school.

While many reviewers compare Clarke ’ s style to that of Austen, Gregory Feeley argues in his review for The Weekly Standard that " the points of resemblance are mostly superficial ".

Maxwell argues that Foreign Affairs has attempted to whitewash even the nature of the historical controversy: " In his editorial response Hoge claims that Kissinger's and Rogers ' unhappiness was prompted by the ' damaging implication ' in my review that ' Rogers and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had contributed to the creation of a permissive environment for political violence by the Chilean government under Augusto Pinochet.

Their review of a wealth of data from functional imaging ( functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography ) and structural imaging ( diffusion MRI, voxel-based morphometry, in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy ) argues that that human intelligence arises from a distributed and integrated neural network comprising brain regions in the frontal and parietal lobes.

Carla Meyer, in her review for the San Francisco Chronicle, argues that " the film updates a classical premise-the struggle for personal freedom-by pairing it with ethical and moral quandaries ".

In his books and essays, Wildstein vehemently argues for a thorough review of the communist past not only of politicians, but of Polish society as a whole.

An extensive review and opinion advocating the adoption of civil marriage in Israel, written by Prof. Pinhas Shifman and published in July 2001 by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, mentions Mamzer among the categories of Israelis which Professor Shifman believes should have a right to marry a spouse of their choice and argues current Israeli law interferes with and denies that right.

In a review for Political Theory, William E. Connolly argues that MacIntyre sees Nietzsche as " the adversary to be defeated, but Nietzsche's voice is not heard clearly ".

Charles Gray, in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, argues that Coke as a judge never intended to advocate the judicial review of statutes, Bailyn writes that " Coke had not meant ... that there were superior principles of right and justice which Acts of Parliament might not contravene ... saying that courts might ' void ' a legislative provision that violated the constitution he meant only that the courts were to construe statutes so as to bring them into conformity with recognized legal principles ".

The review also argues Legend of Earthsea " is shabbily and indifferently directed " and " The dialogue is dreadfully clunky and often excruciatingly bad ".

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

Swift however, Landa argues, is not merely criticizing economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.

William of Malmesbury's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety.

Fleuriot argues that Ambrosius led the Britons in the battle, in which he was defeated and forced to retreat to Burgundy.

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

Barnes argues that the original was actually thirty-six books, which would mean that eighteen books had been lost ).

bell hooks argues that black nationalism was largely a patriarchical and misogynist movement, seeking to overcome racial divisions by strengthening sexist ones, and that it readily latched onto the idea of the emasculating black matriarch proposed by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose theories bell hooks often criticizes.

Author Jerome Clark argues that the Jacko Affair, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia, was a hoax.

Bede was familiar with pagan authors such as Virgil, but it was not considered appropriate to teach biblical grammar from such texts, and in De schematibus ... Bede argues for the superiority of Christian texts in understanding Christian literature.

Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the original form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born.

The midrashic book of Jasher argues that prior to revealing his identity, Joseph asked Benjamin to find his missing brother ( i. e. Joseph ) via astrology, using an astrolabe-like tool ; it continues by stating that Benjamin divined that the man on the throne was Joseph, so Joseph identified himself to Benjamin ( but not the other brothers ), and revealed his scheme ( as in the Torah ) to test how fraternal the other brothers were.

Carter argues in The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar that Antony knew he was surrounded and had nowhere to run.

In 1927, valence bond theory was formulated and it argues that a chemical bond forms when two valence electrons, in their respective atomic orbitals, work or function to hold two nuclei together, by virtue of effects of lowering system energies.

Waldo Dunnington, a biographer of Gauss, argues in Gauss, Titan of Science that Gauss was in fact in full possession of non-Euclidean geometry long before it was published by János Bolyai, but that he refused to publish any of it because of his fear of controversy.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

McGilvray argues that this was caste-like solicitude for endogamy, and was aimed to prevent low status intermarriages.

The traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S. A. Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.

" Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

New York held out until July 26 ; certainly The Federalist was more important there than anywhere else, but Furtwangler argues that it " could hardly rival other major forces in the ratification contests "-- specifically, these forces included the personal influence of well-known Federalists, for instance Hamilton and Jay, and Anti-Federalists, including Governor George Clinton.

In Intelligence and Ethnicity, Sowell argues that IQ gaps are hardly startling or unusual between, or within, ethnic groups.

As for the Year 27 hieratic graffito at Horemheb's Funerary temple at Medinet Habu and the Year 59 date from the inscription of Mes, Van Dijk argues that the first date likely inaugurated a statue of Horemheb during Year 27 of Ramesses II or III in Horemheb's temple while the latter date of Mes " can hardly be taken seriously, and indeed is not taken at face value by even the staunchest supporters of a long reign " for Horemheb since there was no standard Egptian practise of including the years of all the rulers between Amenhotep III and Horemheb as Wolfgang Helck makes clear.

Socialism, Hobsbawm argues, ultimately fell because, eventually, "... hardly anyone believed in the system or felt any loyalty to it, not even those who governed it.

An expert on printed broadsides, Harker argues against the very existence of an oral tradition: " It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the English folk-song was invented by Cecil Sharp.

'" Schorsch argues that concerning Abrabanel's views about the connection between slavery and the curse of Ham, Abrabnel was influenced by the writings of his contemporaries and predecessors, including Christian and Muslim writers, as well as the culture around him, and was hardly considered unique in his views.