"Even if they are small, local polemics, they can leave a mark," he said at a crowded news conference in Rome.
Haeckel defended himself, in a small section of a long polemic, by pretending that for consistency Dohrn would have to make the whole animal kingdom degenerate from the "sinless" Adam until the "unfortunate amphioxus, which had burdened itself with the most serious guilt, finally lost even its head" (Haeckel 1875, pp. 31 33, 88 89).
Political polemic plays a relatively small role; Peterson's goal is less to help his readers change the world than to help them find a stable place within it.
But there is little of his characteristic polemic in Profiles.
It is almost impossible to imagine now any circumstances in which a publishing house which issued nothing but political polemics of a very specific flavour could attract anything but a very small audience.
Musk's initial "pedo" polemic seemed to be prompted by the fact that Unsworth had questioned whether his small, child-sized submarine would be of any use in the rescue mission.
Polemics about the dissident Marxist Poum are irrelevant here and, given that party's small size and marginal role in the civil war, barely significant.
Small publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions has been publishing long-form essays since its launch, finding bestsellers in Dan Fox's polemic Pretentiousness: Why It Matters, which argues that some affectation is necessary for innovation in art and culture, and Simon Critchley's call for a rational discourse on killing oneself, Notes on a Suicide.
On small stages, but more often from the platform on their stage truck, the troupe offered a collage of polemics, satiric skits, dance, song and instrumentals (played on flutes, fiddles and tin whistles), usually with a message of uplifting the downtrodden.
