Indeed, it is easy to exaggerate the flaws of the city and its popes, who were able administrators and quite learned; their poor reputation stems, in part, from the polemic involved in the demand for the return to Rome.
If medicine is, to use Lewis Thomas's felicitous expression, "the youngest science," then how might we apply the fruits of basic science to the neglected diseases of poverty? 9, 10 It's not merely polemic to note that all diseases that affect primarily the poor are, by definition, neglected.
"His media strategy as mayor of Béziers relies on polemics aimed at shattering the politically correct consensus on secularism, immigration, and even the poor".
Although his narrative never slides into an ardent polemic, it is arguable that Reza Aslan's Jesus is a bold and tireless advocate for the poor.
Beginning with his 1984 book Losing Ground and taken up more fully in The Bell Curve in 1994 and through his most recent writing, the corpus of Murray's work has amounted to an ideological polemic that justifies the ongoing disenfranchisement of African Americans and other people of color, and more recently, poor and working class white people.
As this all ripples and overspills, Farhadi's cinematic humanism -- again, in the service of first-rate drama, cinema, not polemic -- probes fundamental questions of civil society: secular and religious cultures; gender relations; labor law; childcare; the working poor; care for the elderly; the credit and banking system; women's rights; the raising of a generation in the twenty-first century.
WHATEVER happened to American polemic?
A polemic would end here.
Rosenberg's polemic was rangier.
