Word: polemicizing
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The major problem with this collection is that it suffers from too much editorial fussing. There are too many letters which consist of a single sentence (sometimes a sentence fragment) bookended by ellipses bound in brackets; too many paragraphs wrenched out of context and tossed into another section of the...
Kurzweil delivers bold predictions with confidence and the persuasive calm of someone whose work has revolutionized several fields. With a lifetime of inventions and entrepreneurship behind him--he sold his first company as an M.I.T. sophomore--Kurzweil has pursued a side career charting technological trends. His critics include such luminaries...
So where does Lucas stand in this political polemic? "I'm more on the liberal side of things," he says. "I grew up in San Francisco in the '60s, and my positions are sort of shaped by that...If you look back 30 years ago, there were certain issues with...
The crude polemic by Ross G. Douthat ’02 depicting Fidel Castro as equivalent to Adolf Hitler and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Mario Coyula as the equal of Albert Speer (Column, “Albert Speer at Harvard,” March 4) deserves condemnation on at...
Douthat: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No one is suggesting that Cornel West is saying things that should get him fired from Harvard, or anything like that. All we are saying is that Cornel West has become in the past five or 10 years a polemicist. I mean, if...