polemic
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We care about his long-ago polemic because of the ideas he embedded in it and the force with which he expressed them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Rather than slide into polemic or tragic melodrama, Nguyen leans into the tension between the four half-siblings to unpack the complicated roles that surveillance, big tech and journalism play in our fractured modern state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
His Glastonbury set opened with the angry, antagonistic Hate, followed quickly by Plastic, a polemic about the seductive but reductive allure of consumer culture.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2023
What Rufo is talking about is a classic bait-and-switch — cutting and pasting a polemic from one place into another for a strategic advantage.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
I was heart-sick at the prospect that he might want to re-edit the entire book into a polemic against Elijah Muhammad.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
"A Kingdom that counters polemics and resignation through friendship and a culture of encounter. Let us believe once again in love, moderation and good politics."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
What Mr. Restall means is that the great explorer is still at the center of a swarm of unresolved polemics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
One of the more recent and ballyhooed polemics against Roosevelt was "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," a 2007 bestseller by Amity Shlaes.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023
Davis wrote what he said were “impassioned polemics on the necessity of the urban left.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Was it not a word, thanks to Pascal, irretrievably associated with religious polemics of the sort that the members of the Royal Society were determined to avoid?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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