There seems little prospect his last polemic will now ever be published.
Other forms of collective public expression, legally guaranteed academic autonomy and even an (unequal) opposition-regime polemic lasted until the major shake-up of 1968.
In 1332 Palamas entered into a theological dispute that lasted for a quarter of a century and involved polemics with a series of Greek and Latin scholastic theologians and certain rationalistic humanists.
At the time, I thought of Last Tango as a polemic against love.
It is an odd and quirky book, however, going into extremely fine detail in some areas, hurrying past others with a few casual remarks, and deviating in its last hundred pages into political polemic.
No insight from the other camp can be valid; by the same token, many on the right go to extremes to vilify Keynes, one of the most insightful thinkers of the last century.In the Bloomberg polemic, Noah Smith argues that the Austrians have been proved wrong because the hyperinflation that they predicted (as the inevitable consequence of QE) has not occurred.
Almost to the very last, he was writing a scathing polemic about the dysfunctional West Indies Cricket Board.
Detachment, an exploration of ideas in the flesh - whether a critique of society's treatment of gay men (Caravaggio, Edward II) or, as in The Last Of England, an anti-Thatcher polemic on England as a lost ideal.
However, the polemic will, and should, go on much longer.
As the tone of that last line suggests, alas, it's hard to write a polemic premised on the assumption that your opponents are monkeys without sounding like a particularly high-vocabulary monkey yourself.
