Yet, although the polemics about them are importantly different, the two men are still worth taking together.
The important thing, he said at once, was not the polemics about the dates but what was implied by the contents of the manuscripts.
Frank's book remains the leading polemic about the white reaction — the title alone has, for many liberals, become shorthand for the conventional wisdom — but it is hobbled by the condescending argument that tens of millions of Americans have become victims of a "carefully cultivated derangement," or are simply stupid.
She read a lot of science and economics texts - "the most eccentric passage of my life" - and the resulting polemic, about the dumping of nuclear waste, attracted some cranky reviews in the science press, although she says her findings were hardly startling.
In this polemic about contemporary motherhood, Warner argues that the gains of feminism are no match for the frenzied perfectionism of American parenting.
Temporary end, at least, of the polemic in Spain about what is wrong with Barça.
LONDON — The election of an Argentine to the papacy has revived a polemic about the role of the Roman Catholic Church during his country's so-called "dirty war" and about his own dealings with a military junta that murdered up to 30,000 citizens.
(With Jonathan Haidt, Lukianoff wrote "The Coddling of the American Mind," a spirited polemic about the decline of free speech on campus published in The Atlantic).
French reviews and American previews of "Submission" might leave one with the impression of a sardonic, teeth-baring polemic about the evils of Islam, the absurdities of feminism, the terrible demoralization of French life.
The title, "The Critique of Cynical Reason," seemed to promise a cheeky update of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," but the book instead delivered a wildly personal polemic about the deterioration of the utopian spirit of 1968 and called for Sloterdijk's generation to take stock of itself.
