Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV network was going to subvert the social order in Asia, erode traditional culture and mesmerize a generation?

CNN: ASIA'S NO PUSHOVER

Some senior people from Saddam Hussein's Baath Party were also there, perhaps hoping to use new freedoms to subvert the new order.

ECONOMIST: Elections or caucuses?

The broader question: How was someone from the nethermost rungs of the social hierarchy able to subvert the natural order ... and win?

FORBES

Before Mr Khatami's election, the government had frowned on innocent-seeming pleasures like the theatre, western music and novel-reading, fearing that such art forms would subvert the austere Islamic order established in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution 20 years ago.

ECONOMIST: The arts in Iran

Whatiftheworld gallery showcases emerging South African artists like Athi Patra Ruga, whose photographs and performance pieces explore and subvert the human body in order to examine the boundaries between fashion, performance and contemporary art.

BBC: A Woodstock revival in Cape Town