The title of Jaron Lanier's excellent recent polemic, Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, leaves no doubt which side he's on.
Shine boss Elisabeth Murdoch (2012) - the sole female 21st-century lecturer to date - makes the case for television driven by "a rigorous set of values" in a speech seen as taking aim at her brother James's anti-BBC polemic three years previously.
What it is is a curious hybrid of mystery and polemic, four parts portent to one part whodunit.
He has objected several times to being pigeonholed as a mystery writer, and he has published two nonfiction polemics, two spooky-kooky works of science fiction and "RL's Dream," a novel about an imaginary bluesman named Soupspoon Wise.
This project, like many others, was the occasion of numerous polemics; one of these culminated in a suit for libel, brought against Denison by Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the makers of the clock's great bell, and settled out of court.
Running to 15,000 words, Bragg's polemic, The Three Dimensions of Freedom, will be published in May and will tackle the battleground that free speech has become.
It is essentially a booklong polemic against one magazine article: a profile of the Islamic philosopher Tariq Ramadan, written by Ian Buruma, the Dutch academic and journalist, and published in The New York Times Magazine in 2007.
But in his snappy new opuscule Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (Simon & Schuster, Denbyy fulminates against the epidemic of verbal hazing.
It was a view that was seldom heard in polemics giving two preceding versions of events but that had a life of its own, given to it by the immigrants.
Washington's polemic fails in two ways.
