"I'm reviving the 'French polemic' in a world that's on the one hand Americanized, and on the other, that people want to see sterilized by antiracism, by political correctness," Mr. Zemmour said over coffee at the back of a dark Paris cafe.
In a polemic that has echoes in the present day, he concludes: "The age of chivalry is gone.
Christopher Hitchens, the author of an antireligious polemic in 2007, observed that half the people who came to his book-promoting speeches had thought they were the only atheists in town.Isolation matters especially when it comes to bringing up children, a tough task at the best of times.
It is this badge of influence and his reputation for a lack of interest in polemics that give weight to the Arizona Republican's assertion that Mr. Obama has given away more than a year "with nothing to show for it" — not excepting a still-to-be-ratified Start nuclear arms treaty of questionable significance that he says magnifies an indecisive or even wobbling approach on Iran.
As with his recent "Muslims-are-taking-over-London" polemic, in which he said that London police officers are "scared for their lives" due to "areas of radicalisation" in the capital.
I worry that arguing in the way that Zuroff and Katz do confirms the pattern of polemic that has persisted in discussions of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for decades: scholarship is ultimately politics, and politics is ultimately a matter of being on one side or the other.
Calvin actively participated in the polemics that were exchanged between the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation movement.
Gay, who treats Schnitzler as Exhibit A in a polemic asserting that Victorians were not the prudes we take them for, is far more interested in Schnitzler the philanderer than in Schnitzler the writer.
Coates, a writer for The Atlantic, has been chronicling recent police killings, and he has responded with a polemic, in the tradition of James Baldwin, that takes the form of a lyrical letter to his fourteen-year-old son.
Arthur Levine, president of Columbia Teachers College, a strong proponent of a required core, called the report a "political polemic" that was entirely arbitrary in the courses it held out as standards.
