According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

The essay has been described as " a daring and original piece of work in which he set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom of philosophy ", and as such was controversial, particularly among the conservative professors at the University of Berlin.

In 1946, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley published a classic and controversial New Critical essay entitled " The Intentional Fallacy ", in which they argued strongly against the relevance of an author's intention, or " intended meaning " in the analysis of a literary work.

In 1931, while attending West Seattle High School, she entered and won $ 100 from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a writing contest sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, with her controversial essay " God Dies ".

Some years later, Chuck Rozanski, owner of retailer Mile High Comics, would pen a controversial essay in the Comics Buyer's Guide which blamed the Death of Superman promotion for playing a significant role in the collapse of the comic book industry in the late 1990s.

In 2006, he wrote Two Wands, One Nation, a controversial essay in which he advocates that black and Hispanic Americans embrace " Japanese or Jewish values ".

She is a controversial figure in the American poetry " establishment ," thanks to her Pushcart-award winning essay, " Against Decoration ," which was originally published in the quarterly review Parnassus ( 1991 ) and later reprinted in Viper Rum.

In September 2006, the magazine published an essay by John Barr, head of the Poetry Foundation, titled, " American Poetry in the New Century ," which became controversial, generating many complaints and some support.

While writing on a wide range of subject his essay The Public-School Failure established him as a prominent and controversial social critic.

Neither piece was widely publicized at the time, though the 2003 book does indicate that the Nazi references in the earlier essay were already controversial.

*" Shade and Shape in Pale Fire "-A somewhat controversial essay on Nabokov's novel.

* Shintaro Ishihara, governor of Tokyo, and co-author of the controversial essay, " The Japan That Can Say No "

In 1987, it published a controversial essay, “ The Poor Poles Look at the ghetto ” (“ Biedni Polacy patrzą na getto ”) by Jan Błoński.

Also written in 2000 was another controversial essay, entitled " the Dangers of Peace ," in which he described an America falling under peacetime's " numbing and corrosive illusion.

In 1992, Utley issued a controversial commentary essay at the close of a weekend newscast, expressing a view that then-President George H. W.

Alan Greenspan, who later recanted most of his economic positions in common with Rand ( notably the gold standard which he championed in a 1966 essay < ref > http :// www. constitution. org / mon / greenspan_gold. htm <</ ref > published in her book ), as US Federal Reserve chair had extraordinary and controversial influence over US & global monetary policy, was of all her followers most influential, bringing further scrutiny on the ideals of executive authority and heroism she promoted.

The very beginning of The Modern Breakthrough is usually attributed Georg Brandes, who already in 1869 translated the controversial essay The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill into Danish.

A. Phillips, and defined in an influential and highly controversial 1950 essay of the same name.

His controversial essay argues that " The cultural cringe ... did not exist, but it was needed, and so it was invented.

" The controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq has also cited Lovecraft as an influence and has written a lengthy essay on Lovecraft entitled H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life in which he refers to the Cthulhu cycle as " the great texts ".

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

Holliday's winning run came off of a controversial slide in which home plate umpire Tim McClelland called Holliday safe, despite replays showing Holliday may have never touched the plate.

Lenin called Jewish people in Poland as a caste, a claim that became controversial.

In some places, controversial attempts such as racial quotas have been used to redress negative effects of discrimination -- but have sometimes been called reverse discrimination themselves.

In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI called this topic " so controversial, yet so crucial for humanity's future ".

He put the encyclical in the broader view of love in a global context, a topic he called " so controversial, yet so crucial for humanity's future.

The series is still a source of contention among fans, notably the controversial call in the bottom of the ninth of game 6 in which Jorge Orta was called safe on a play that replays later showed him out.

Some researchers have proposed a link to languages like Tungusic and Turkic, which are often included alongside Mongolic in a group called Altaic languages, though this is controversial.

The Ptolemy may have called the city " Macoraba ", though this identification is controversial.

He kept out of Epistolae familiares a special set of 19 controversial letters called Liber sine nomine that contained much criticism of the Avignon papacy.

Often called the " dean of science fiction writers ", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time.

The synod, chaired by controversial Patriarch Meletius IV of Constantinople, and called Pan-Orthodox by its defenders, did not have representatives from the remaining Orthodox members of the original Pentarchy ( the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria ) or from the largest Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, then under persecution from the Bolsheviks, but only effective representation from the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Serbian Patriarch.

This game was also noted for a controversial procedure penalty during one Rams ' drive when Los Angeles guard Tom Mack was called for a false start near the Viking goal line following Alan Page crossing the line of scrimmage unabated.

In response to allegations that Michigan's militia fired upon Ohioans, Lucas called a special session of Ohio's Legislature on June 8, 1835 to pass several more controversial acts, including establishment of Toledo as the county seat of Lucas County, the establishment of a Court of Common Pleas in the city, a law to prevent the forcible abduction of Ohio citizens from the area and a budget of $ 300, 000 to implement the legislation.

Heidegger is a controversial figure, largely for his affiliation with the Nazis, for which he never apologized nor expressed regret, except in private when he called it " the biggest stupidity of his life " ( die größte Dummheit seines Lebens ).

His opinions proved controversial to fellow clergymen, and around 1522 he was called before John Bell, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester, though no formal charges were laid.

The identity of the first American landfall by Columbus remains controversial, but many authors accept Samuel E. Morison's identification of what was then called Watling ( or Watling's ) Island as Columbus ' San Salvador.

Since the Basic Law is restrictive on the dissolution of parliament, Kohl had to take another controversial move: he called for a confidence vote only a month after being sworn in, in which members of his coalition abstained.

First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.

After returning to France, Ravel composed his most famous and controversial orchestral work Boléro, originally called Fandango.

Zenker's speech was so controversial that a special session of the Bundestag was called in March 1956 to debate the issue of whatever Raeder and Dönitz were sort of examples that Bundesmarine officers should be following.

The first was called I Am Not Spock ( 1977 ) and was controversial, as many fans incorrectly assumed that Nimoy was distancing himself from the Spock character.

Two län ( counties ) in Sweden are officially called ' regions ': Skåne and Västra Götaland, and there is currently a controversial proposal to divide the rest of Sweden into large regions, replacing the current counties.

The controversial Coinage Act of 1873 ( also called the Fourth Coinage Act or Mint Act ) embraced the gold standard and de-monetized silver.

As the war became more controversial, he modified his tone, called for more attention to the sacrifice of the troops, and said, " My only position on the war is that I wish it were over.