The failure of socialism has freed the left "to go along with any movement however far to the right it may be, as long as it is against the status quo in general and, specifically, America .The particular target of this wide-ranging polemic is the recent unholy alliance between left-wing movements in the West and the right-wing bigotry of Islamic extremism.
To celebrate its new incarnation, the renamed Prickly Paradigm is issuing five 50-page polemics this month on subjects ranging from the West's relationship to war to the unlikely affinities between left-wing cultural studies scholars and libertarian Wall Streeters.
As well as appearing on TV, she writes a weekly column in the Sunday Fairfax papers, a column on The Drum, and books ranging from a Quarterly Essay on Malcolm Turnbull to the popular culture polemic The Wife Drought.
Iain's poems vary greatly in length and theme, ranging from discursive meditations on landscape and relationships through highly crafted love poems and take-no-prisoners polemics to witty squibs.
Based on 15 interviews, whose subjects range from artist and musician Bill Drummond to Judi Dench, the book is part memoir, part polemic, part reportage and part poetry.
And so he boldly freelances from one topic to another, an improvisatory method that results in a book of loosely gathered riffs and stories that range in style from soul-rending confessional to warm recollection to playful fiction to blistering polemic to tweedy, insufferable lecture.
The reactions to Hitchens's diagnosis of oesophageal cancer in June 2010 from his intellectual opponents – which ranged from undisguised glee to offers of prayers – testified to his stature as one of the leading voices of secularism since the publication in 2007 of his anti-religious polemic God is Not Great.
Telling Times displays her intellectual and creative range, from travel writing to polemic, taut reportage to literary criticism.
The purpose is to generate new ideas and provide polemic clarity geared to intellectually challenge readers from across a range of academic and industrial disciplines.
Explaining, in a book on Cadmus, the splay-legged sailors and naked men sharing a bathroom, he wrote, "As for sexual factors, he has without ostentation or polemic long celebrated somatic health in boys and young men for its symbolic range of human possibility".
