The phrase “a polemic between” is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence such as, “The article about gun control sparked a polemic between the government and members of the public.” In this context, the phrase is used to describe a heated dispute between two or more parties.
Today's decision provoked a bitter polemic between President Lagos and Gen. Ricardo Izurieta.
That same year, he published the three-volume work Mata Gelap (Dark Eyes); this led to a long polemic between Doenia Bergerak and the Chinese-owned Tjoen Tjioe in Surabaya due to perceived racism.
"I think it's because after the Jesse Jackson campaign there was a polemic in dialogue between myself and the Jewish community," explains Farrakhan.
Further, in 1413 1414 he played a dominant role in the Disputation at Tortosa, a major public polemic between the Jewish convert to Christianity Geronimo de Santa Fe (formerly Joshua Lorki), who represented the pope, and delegates from many Jewish communities in Christian Spain.
Critical views have emphasised various aspects of its story, finding in the work an increased empathy for women's thoughts and feelings, a call for a unifying language in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and a polemic regarding the relation between tradition and modernity.
You would be hard-pressed to find a heated, passionate polemic between writers over some aesthetical, let alone political, issue - nobody seems to care enough, and many are scared to come off as pretentious.
Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University and the author of "Against Love: A Polemic" (2003), outlines the relationship between those who act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage and a judgmental society that enjoys watching them.
Into this breach steps Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University and the author of "Against Love: A Polemic" and other books, with her "scandal psychodynamic," ready to outline the relationship between the transgressors and a judgmental society.
A polemic would end here.
