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Co-curated by Maura Reilly and the venerable feminist art historian Linda Nochlin — who, in 1971, rocked the discipline with her polemic "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" — the show is brilliant in places, discursive in others, as any survey aspiring to global scope must be.
Perhaps the best example of the latter remains Britain TM, a 1997 pamphlet authored by Mark Leonard (the wonk-turned-author who has since written the more impressive polemic Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century) that stood as the founding text of the government's dalliance with Cool Britannia.
In his polemic "Why the University Should Abolish Faculty Course Evaluations," published in a faculty newsletter in 2004, Clark Glymour, a philosopher at Carnegie Mellon University, argues that giving good grades can even make up for a professor's lack of charm and wit.
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At The Queensberry Rules, a boxing blog, Sam Sheppard wrote a delectable polemic entitled, "Why Miguel Cotto Has No Place in the Hall of Fame".
In response one of the directors, Ulrich Köhler ("Bungalow"), published a polemic titled "Why I Don't Make Political Films" (translated into English in a recent issue of Cinema Scope magazine).
The film never sacrifices good storytelling for polemics: that's why it's well worth seeing.
Winterbottom described the film as "a polemic" which will examine "why nothing has changed" since 2008.
Yet I have a better understanding of why Greer's polemic continues to leave me cold: it's horribly anaemic on abortion.
On the back of this, he co-wrote with Nikita Coulombe a short polemic, 'the Demise of Guys: Why Boys are Struggling and What We Can Do About It', which weighed in at just over 100 pages.
Another polemic against Conservative policies was Why Not Trust the Tories (1944, written by "Gracchus", who later proved to be future Labour minister Aneurin Bevan), which castigated the Conservatives for the foreign policy decisions of Baldwin and Chamberlain.
Why We Lie, a polemic that includes Rowe's views on climate change and the global credit crisis, seems like her answer to some of the world's problems.
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