Word: polemicizing
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Re: “The Farce of Feminism” (Editorial, Oct. 16, 2001), I have no objection to people opposing feminism, or at least discussing it. Unfortunately, Rebecca E. Rubins’ Editor’s Notebook was riddled with factual errors and logical fallacies, which make her piece...
Lance Morrow's polemic was flip, superficial and unhelpful in this time of crisis. What is nourishing about rage? What is inappropriate about healing? Is hatred wholesome and intelligent? Is "self-confident relentlessness" a discipline Americans need to learn? Following this logic, one would have to conclude that terrorists and...
In From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe's wiseguy polemic of 1984, Wolfe was at a loss to explain how in mid-century America--a wealthy, robust nation unscarred by war--the business elites ended up settling upon puritanical Modernism as the official style of fat and happy capitalism...
Carroll's book, however, is not just a polemic; his literary gifts enable him to produce a coherent narrative studded with arresting cameos and acute analysis. His plot, highly simplified, runs as follows: Jesus' first mourners, who considered themselves Jewish, engaged in earnest critiques of their faith; but the authors...
I logged on to thecrimson.com to read about The Game and found something even more disturbing--Yasmin Bin-Humam's naive anti-Israel polemic (Editorial, Nov. 17). In all fairness, it sounded like the kind of naive pro-Israel polemic I might have written when I was a sophomore at...