Word: polemicizing
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Ms. Bowdren's patronizing polemic against her personal pet peeve--the "militant feminist" RUS--possesses as much (if not more) partisan preachment, presumptuous pretermission puerile posturing, political paranoia, psychosocial projection, pseudo-pro-gressive prescription and propagandistic pabulum as any pro-nouncement I've ever heard pro-claimed against "patriarch, phallocentricism...
Just before he flew to the U.S. to direct a splendid revival at Princeton this month of his favorite early play, Hello and Goodbye, dramatist Athol Fugard asked friends at a dinner party, "Am I about to become the new South Africa's first literary redundancy?" Although he tells the...
In Katie Roiphe's date rape polemic, The Morning After, she pulls that typical trick of grouping all of her opponents together. She assumes that every feminist on every campus in the world thinks like Catharine MacKinnon, who believes that all social contact between men and women is tantamount to...
The world is more complicated than the Manichean division of oppressor and oppressed upon which so much liberal polemic is based, and life consists in more than the abundance or equality of material and political possessions which seems to be the summum bonum of most modern liberal thought.
The right-to-life case is made with unusual moral force. But the play is unmistakably pro-choice. So is the audience, to judge from its responses. The play has not sparked formal protest yet, perhaps because its publicity campaign has downplayed the plot's polemic nature.