| 单词 | polemic |
| 例句 | The words merely serve the pictures of the subject in question, employing the facts for the tabloid polemic of how a city should be run, justice served. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby wanted the film to be a polemic,, not a biography—and he certainly didn’t want it to be about his bodyguard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When he received his authors copies he saw that FitzRoy had added a volume with a religious polemic arguing against Charles’s geological findings—that the earth was formed gradually and was still being formed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In Congress, North Carolina senator Sam Ervin Jr. drafted a racist polemic, the “Southern Manifesto,” which vowed to fight to maintain Jim Crow by all legal means. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I thought that once the heated polemics had cooled, the essential commonality of the struggle would bring us together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it not a word, thanks to Pascal, irretrievably associated with religious polemics of the sort that the members of the Royal Society were determined to avoid? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was heart-sick at the prospect that he might want to re-edit the entire book into a polemic against Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "Watch that temper, that's discipline, too. Learn to demolish your brotherly opponents with ideas, with polemic skill. The other is for our enemies. Save it for them. And go get some rest." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Prison conditions have a way of tempering polemics, and making individuals see more what unites them than what divides them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But “polemic” is too generous a word for the dominant cultural tone. In ‘Intimations,’ Zadie Smith Applies Her Even Temper to Tumultuous Times 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z This puts enormous pressure on the production to keep the personal material in focus, lest the whole thing tip into polemics. Review: ‘American Son’ Puts Kerry Washington in a Maternal Nightmare 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The Residents' collage is at once tender and sinister: a mocking polemic masking deep emotions. Jon Savage on song: The Residents create the first Beatles mash-up 2010-06-21T10:37:00Z Any time you set out to teach people something, it can become a polemic. Mae Martin Embraces Ambiguity in ‘Feel Good,’ and in Life 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z “Fallout” is a warning without being a polemic. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Haines’s scorn for today’s rapacious society occasionally results in polemics, but the majority of her various plots show significant promise. | 'Future Anxiety': No Shades Needed in Not-So-Bright Future 2011-05-03T21:11:59Z He is a master storyteller who in his best-known works, like “The Wire,” “Treme” and “The Deuce,” brings an edge of polemic to his narratives, calling attention to societal or institutional injustice. ‘The Plot Against America’ Imagines the Rise of an Intolerant Demagogue 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Literature does not need to employ polemics or confrontation. Olive Senior: 'Literature is political because we are political animals' 2013-04-29T15:05:06Z I’m famous for making polemic statements just to see what reaction they get. With ‘57th and 9th,’ Sting Changes His Mind About Rock 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z A political talk show is a gladiatorial contest in which squabbles, polemics and screaming matches are exploited for their entertainment value. Books of The Times: ?Drift? by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Traces American Militarism 2012-03-28T22:36:04Z “They are films that are ostensibly about race but are extended polemics where so-called progressive Whites are saying ‘I’m the only one who has a reasonable perspective on this and Blacks are irrational and unreasonable.” Dear Hollywood: Let's Stop Making Movies Like "Black or White" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Like “The Big Short,” his rollicking explication of the financial crisis of 2008, this movie transforms gaudy pop-cultural toys into tools of polemic and explanation. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z And he never reduces his messages to preaching or polemic. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z It's a frank exploration of a topic that considers both sides, when we're much more used to polemics. Mindy Kaling: 'I wasn't considered attractive or funny enough to play myself' 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z I confess, I spent too long rolling my eyes at the flat style, the shiny characters and the clunky polemics of “The Four Winds” before finally giving in and snuffling, “I’m not crying — you’re crying!” Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z "When I read it through it was starting to feel like a textbook, an anti-CIA polemic, and a third had to go." RJ Ellory wins crime novel of the year award 2010-07-23T11:50:00Z “Talk About Body,” the band’s first album, sounds alternative, but not off to the side; it’s not the greatest record you’ll hear this year, but it’s pretty remarkable as a political and musical polemic. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Ricky Martin, Now as Himself 2011-01-31T23:07:14Z So it is no surprise that Shaw's first staged drama – initially written in collaboration with Archer – should be a socialist polemic with a Wagnerian theme. Widowers' Houses – review 2013-06-21T17:07:00Z It encompassed craft and mysticism, teapots and mechanical ballets, parties and polemics. From bob cuts to Bond films, the Bauhaus legacy lives on 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z She has always dodged attempts to pin her down with her own polemic. Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z But his play, which opens on Thursday night, and is Mr. Jackson’s second Lincoln Center Theater production, may frustrate viewers who want a polemic. A Playwright Whose Time Seems to Be Now 2011-02-09T22:29:09Z He frames this “attempted memoir” as a “polemic in favor of failure.” Audiobooks for Those Long Summer Drives, Without the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z But of all the characters who besiege Sally with their opinions, only those portrayed by Ms. Matthis — both the coach and Tubman — have an idiosyncratic existence that roots polemics in personality. Review: ‘The Insurgents’ Stars Cassie Beck in a Lucy Thurber Drama 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Barney's Version the novel is a passionate and scabrous polemic arguing for the primacy of one kind of narrative voice over another. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z But as a piece of drama, and indeed polemic against the death penalty, Better Man is affecting and unsettling television. Better Man - TV review 2013-07-25T22:49:05Z And yet this isn’t “The Jungle” for modern agricultural workers; there’s nothing polemic about “Delicious Foods” and its sly peek at a backwater farm without unions or labor laws. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Related: I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach's welfare state polemic is blunt, dignified and brutally moving Elsewhere, the politics of Cannes manifested themselves in the auteurs’ individual statements. Cannes 2016: Peter Bradshaw's festival verdict and award predictions 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But it’s not a polemic about Black struggle. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Many of the writers had died within days of writing these messages, which were stunning as poetry and polemic. Cruising the Past, from Baltimore to Charleston 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But they have stacked the deck so unfairly that after many entertaining and learned chapters, their polemic ends up as something you can safely ignore, less provocative than merely querulous. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z Over the years, in scores of interviews, Simon has consistently made the point that “The Wire” was a show with an editorial agenda, a polemic about “the America that got left behind.” Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z The sheer quantity of cultural events is overwhelming; so is their scattered miscellany, a potpourri of sentiment and argument, memorialization and self-criticism, reflection and political polemic. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Memorials: Many Perspectives, Few Answers 2011-09-02T23:58:41Z The emotional, fast-moving production at MetroStage often succeeds in blending the charm of a traditional folk tale with the power of a moral polemic. Blending fact and fiction to create a moving tale 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In the latter years of her short life, her health failing, she wrote prolifically: poems, novels, polemic and memoir. Poem of the week: Sappho and Phaon by Mary Robinson 2010-04-12T09:52:00Z The film that appears to have angered Geldof is Starsuckers, a polemic against media and celebrity that will be broadcast on More 4 on Tuesday. Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z Although Mr. Joseph’s play is no polemic against the Iraq war, Tom’s determined pursuit of this glistening lucre resonates as a metaphor for the possibly murky motives behind the American invasion. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Rajiv Joseph?s Play at the Mark Taper Forum 2010-05-14T23:58:00Z Because cinema must couch its polemics in narrative, characters too must stand in for assertions and their rebuttals, imperfectly conducting a dialogue with themselves. From the streets to the screen: how Hollywood is tackling police brutality 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The romantic comedy and sociopolitical polemic aspects of “Made in China” may not always be smoothly integrated, but the show’s visual allure never ceases. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z For one thing, it’s not as good: The book is a timely polemic against globalization and marketization, not a document meant to withstand the test of time. How Rampant Globalization Brought Us Trump 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z "Captive State" is not meant to be a polemic. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The less explicit, the less didactic, the less polemic—the more such art is likely to strike the eye memorably, and to linger in the mind like a visual riddle. Poisoned Landscapes 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z This is not a polemic about oppressive men and put-upon women, but a subtle drama in which neither party is guilty. A Doll's House ? review 2010-10-26T20:29:00Z A cascade of overlapping Rickenbacker, chorus and descant, prayer and polemic. Annotated For the People: A Track By Track Look at the New R.E.M. Retrospective 2011-11-15T10:00:27Z Directed by Anne Kauffman, the show, which scored a nomination for best play revival, is a polemic against puffy-chested, lefty bohemians — mostly men — and their delusions of intellectual grandeur. Miriam Silverman Is ‘Unafraid of Embracing the Darkness’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z He frames issues within emotions; when Glen and Russell discuss sexual politics, it feels like an illumination of their lives, rather than a polemic. Andrew Haigh's Weekend: Sex, No Lies & Audiotape 2011-09-21T22:15:00Z This is not a serious polemic about the exploitation of our financial system — those abuses are merely a means to an end. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Weird Couple of Days 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z “Every Jefferson biography on the shelf is a polemic, one way or another, but we wanted to get beyond that,” Mr. Onuf said. Thomas Jefferson, Neither God Nor Devil 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Yet this is not a fire-breathing polemic or a policy tract. In ‘Girl in Glass,’ mom of ‘distressed baby’ takes on Huffington, the system 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z A long and digressive introduction contains sections of polemic and political generalisation that suggest a rising, multi-tasking writer stretching his opinions a little too thinly. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z Only in a few places did the music performed onstage veer into the neighboring territory of polemic. Global Citizen Festival Brings Stars to Central Park 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z In a smart and funny work — part confession, part polemic — Sycamore navigates the complexities of life in gentrifying Seattle, where she no longer feels welcome in the “politicized queer spaces” she once held dear. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Much more complex than a pro-choice or anti-abortion polemic, Weston's novel is the ambiguous examination of a woman whose actions inexplicably contradict her ethics. Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston – review 2013-06-30T16:00:01Z After his New York Times polemic against “food as art”, the outcry was so great that William Deresiewicz wrote a response. Magic out of mould: inside the world’s wildest restaurant | Jordan Kisner 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z What I ended up doing in Anthill was to lay a polemic into the foundation of the book. Anthill: how biologist EO Wilson turned science into best-selling fiction 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Their weapons are parody and polemics, dripping sarcasm and cheap-shot one-liners, video compilation reels and schoolyard taunts. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Though raising serious questions about the way history is written, and by whom, “The Lost King” isn’t a polemic, or even a biopic. ‘The Lost King’ Review: A Royal Obsession 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z There was an obvious drive to publish feminist nonfiction too, whether polemic or memoir, books that could explore and define the female experience. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z Cavendish, for all that she thought women of a "fantastical" turn of mind, suited to poetry and bad grammar, wrote some powerful polemic against women's lack of educational opportunities. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z Artistic directors cower--polemics and moral tales often win the day. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z She added: “Bravo! Of course it’s polemical; a polemic that many think is useless because the Opera has ‘welcomed’ diversity.” Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Yet the poem is not a polemic in even the most casual use of the word, and it is not “against” the notion of walls. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z But this year, even those polemics normally trumpeted by conservative politicians did not flare up. Italy’s Eurovision Entry Signals the Country’s Changes 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Classic preadolescent dresses, in Mr. Perry’s mind and also in his polemics, came to symbolize the antithesis of the macho. In Paris, the Hunt for Real Emotion 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Only mediocre poets write polemics, or poems that are explicitly for or against anything. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z A true crime story and a madcap comedy, a heist movie and a scalding polemic, “The Big Short” will affirm your deepest cynicism about Wall Street while simultaneously restoring your faith in Hollywood. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z I hope the revival doesn't turn into a polemic against men, or a forum for the MeToo crowd. Lauren Ambrose Finally Gets Her Musical 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Part idyllic travelogue and part environmental polemic, "180 Degrees South" takes a globe-trotting trek to spectacular yet endangered destinations that are alternately overrun by extreme-sport enthusiasts and concerned conservationists. '180 Degrees South': Trekking ? and surfing and climbing ? to Patagonia 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z It is a polemic, a work of activism, a challenge to the viewer. ‘Riotsville, USA’ Review: A Fake Town to Explore Ongoing Unrest 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Contemporary atheistic and theological polemic tends to assume that we all simply choose our beliefs – and can thus choose not to have any belief. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z By the end, though, Kill List is anything but a socio-realist polemic. Kill List brings the horror home 2011-08-26T23:02:00Z Wolf's essay was a brilliant piece of popular social-science polemic, a stark and confident joining of unexpected dots, statistically sophisticated and with a copper-bottomed evidence base. The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf – review 2013-04-26T08:30:01Z Kennedy is a criminologist, but also an activist, and there are parts of his book that read as a polemic. 'Don't Shoot': Saving young lives in a long gang war 2011-09-28T23:47:03Z The film is an unabashed polemic, calling for improved treatment of elephants in zoos and an end to the use of the animals as entertainment, which the film contends must invariably involve abuse. Lily Tomlin speaks up for elephants in documentary 2013-04-24T18:32:11Z Part polemic, part autobiographical, Ehrenreich – who holds a PhD in cellular immunology – casts a skeptical, sometimes witty, and scientifically rigorous eye over the beliefs we hold that we think will give us longevity. When do you know you're old enough to die? Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z It is “a true crime story and a madcap comedy, a heist movie and a scalding polemic,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The play, like most of Ms. Thurber’s work, melds fiction and polemic with biography and autobiography. From Three Troubled Lives, a Play and a New Family 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z One of the things I admire about your writing, especially the essays, which feel like polemics, is that you’re very clear in your arguments. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z His retrospective feels particularly timely because it comes at a moment when glaring polemics are no longer fashionable. The Inside Story on Outsiderness 2011-02-25T21:36:23Z “In ways from the poetic to the polemic,” she said, “we are interested in working with artists who want to engage in that location.” The Institute of Contemporary Art Is Opening a Seasonal Space in Boston 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z But by focusing primarily on individuals, the play, by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, packs a greater wallop — the personal is always more affecting than the polemic. Theater Review: ‘The Exonerated,’ Revived at the Culture Project 2012-09-20T02:12:06Z It wants to be a polemic but sometimes reads more like an obituary. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z “Tyrant” is a fine polemic, but it is considerably more than that. What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Together, they publish a mix of polemics, memoir, reportage and even fiction. Milo Yiannopoulos' problematic book deal is publishing business as usual 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The play, however, doesn’t settle for easy polemics against an insensitive bureaucracy. Women Against the Machine: From Machinal to Luna Gale 2014-01-31T20:50:50Z The New Museum show is essentially a manifesto, of course, but what saves it from becoming pure polemic is that Mr. Koolhaas is a first-rate architect as well as an original thinker. An Alarmed Architect?s Complaint: Preservation Distorts the Past 2011-05-23T12:01:01Z “What should be questioned is not the work of my father-in-law but the opportunistic political usage that is made of it during a polemic election time,” she said. Art: A City Steeped in Picasso's Lore 2011-07-19T11:00:05Z That line came to mind while reading Max Boot’s lively memoir and acidic anti-Trump polemic, “The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right.” Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “The Authority of the Court” reads like what it is — an avuncular polemic constructed by an exemplary technocrat, blithely secure in the nobility of his intentions. Revisiting Justice Stephen Breyer’s Curious (and Strangely Timed) Defense of the Court 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Rock proved to be a smart and curious tour guide, shining a light on a $9bn industry without turning it into a polemic or resorting to condescension. Chris Rock: five best moments 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Why can't it just be an observation about whether this particular movie is good; whether the actors are funny; whether it holds up on its own, not because it advances any polemic? Our ‘Ghostbusters’ Review: Girls Rule. Women Are Funny. Get Over It. 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The polemics in the French news media have grown so pointed since the show opened in April that the Pompidou announced that it would hold a symposium next year on Le Corbusier’s politics. Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z War Games is a chastening polemic which doesn't exactly leave you rushing to renew your charity direct debits. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z “But it still had to be a very personal album, not a polemic.” U2 Offer ‘Songs of Experience’ to a World That’s on Fire 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Although brief overall, in other words, this polemic feels chock-full of insight. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The assignments that followed—the “life-style pieces”—weren’t what she wanted to be doing, but rather than rebel with polemic Bly travelled the world, interviewed politicians, and put herself in dangerous situations. Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z His studies lead him through ancient polemics in which Jewish scholars tried to discredit Christianity by exposing its historical and theological inconsistencies. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z This week, though, he was on much stronger ground with what was more exposé than polemic. TV review: Death in the Med, Our Drug War and In their Own Words 2010-08-17T07:00:00Z In "The Argonauts," poet, critic and essayist Maggie Nelson addresses and dismantles this question from a deeply personal angle, weaving a loose yet intricate tapestry of memoir, art criticism and gentle polemic. An intimate look at a fluid family in Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The moral struggle that follows fuels a sophisticated dialectic that presents both sides of the gun debate before descending, ultimately, into polemics. Gun control takes center stage in new L.A. play 'Church & State' 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Of course, this being a polemic, there’s not much space given to how, exactly, the total disengagement with our individualist and capitalist society might be achieved. The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z However, it is evident from the first few seconds of his endearingly skittish live show that he is really not in the business of peddling arid sexual polemics. Zebra Katz – review 2013-06-09T15:06:55Z Part polemic, part documentary theater, “Help” does not so much dramatize Rankine’s argument as dissect it, coolly daring white audiences to deny the live presentation of empirical evidence. ‘Help’ Review: Blindfolds (and Kid Gloves) Off. Let’s Analyze Whiteness. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Rather than a polemic against the cruelty of whale hunting, this deeply immersive documentary tells of a disappearing way of life, a weather-beaten people who are now buffeted by globalisation – and pollution. 'We were trying not to get hit by their tails' – how I filmed the Faroe whale hunt 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s a sign of the quality of this comedy that it can feel like a polemic and its opposite at the same time. The Best New Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But “Eight Hours” nevertheless feels complete, a lighthearted polemic that is at once a soft-Marxist guide on how to band together to improve your workplace and an almost traditionalist ode to family and community. Review: ‘Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day,’ Another Fassbinder Masterpiece 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “As a polemic, I don’t like what it does,” Dow said of “Disclosure.” A look back at ‘Disclosure’: Does Hollywood prefer films about women sexually harassing men? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z In between jokes about being a single middle-aged guy no longer interested in sex, he might deliver a trenchant polemic about how political debates are financed. On Comedy: Appreciating the Comics Sean Patton and Ted Alexandro 2014-03-12T20:01:16Z “Even if you agree with their conclusions, that the Barnes should stay where it is, this work is a polemic that’s structured to get people riled up, to get them excited and angry.” Film: Requiem for a Jumble of Artworks 2010-02-19T22:41:00Z And maybe that’s how “brownsville song” works best, as elegy and polemic. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Nichols's black comedy is a blazingly original cocktail of styles, as if Brechtian polemic, Mike Leigh domestic comedy and zany, Pythonesque sketches are all competing for space in a single, cramped living room. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – review 2013-04-11T17:13:00Z This new show is part travelogue, part polemic, using tales of a visit to the Netherlands as a jumping-off point for broader points about individualism versus the collective in contemporary society. This week's new live comedy 2012-10-05T23:05:20Z The film is critical of corporations leaving civilians to fend for themselves in Iraq, and Reynolds said "it is not a polemic on the war." Actor Ryan Reynolds buried on film but not by fame 2010-09-23T23:39:00Z “We’re convinced that many educated readers are tired of the usual ideological divides and culture-war polemics in discussing the great issues of human purpose and meaning,” Gary Rosen, the site’s editor in chief, said. A Digital Home for the 'Big Questions' 2010-07-30T17:38:00Z The polemic was as much a signal to his colleagues at Princeton as it was to the public. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The goal isn’t to write polemics, but songs that will touch people and not immediately feel dated. Southern band takes on Trump as impeachment vote nears 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z What Harris, Dawkins and their ilk are preaching is a polemic that has been around since the 18th century – one properly termed, anti-theism. Reza Aslan: Sam Harris and “New Atheists” aren’t new, aren’t even atheists 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Make no mistake, though: Although "The Interview" portrays Kim Jong Un as a megalomaniacal despot who lives in luxury while his people starve, it is no polemic. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke An essay or work of polemic finds it hard to describe the texture of such fluctuation, whereas the novelist understands that to tell a story is to novelise an idea, to dramatise it. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z Rather than a polemic, this play is an accounting of the toll, and the side it takes is in favor of freedom. Review | In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ a searing indictment of the Taliban’s treatment of women 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The contemporary, post-Sontagian polemics adopt a posture of provocation in faintly echoing such forebears, but they are, in their hearts, pluralistic, and in fact suggest only a slight revision in perspective. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Shot over the course of two years, he turns a century of cinema into a politically astute and formally rigorous polemic on the ethics of spectatorship. Fyre festival to Aretha Franklin: 12 documentaries to catch in 2019 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Actually, at the time, Mr. Glass and Mr. Wilson were more interested in fulfilling their personal vision than engaging in polemics. Music Review: ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-16T22:03:03Z Obviously there was fuel for a polemic here. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z Their polemic was simple: the 1960s pop that promised liberation had, by the mid 70s, become a prison, a hegemony of perception that allowed nothing else to thrive. Jon Savage on song: The Residents create the first Beatles mash-up 2010-06-21T10:37:00Z His poetry is more powerful than any polemic. Pink Mist by Owen Sheers – review 2013-05-26T10:00:01Z "In the end, neither proselytizing nor polemics will allow us to find common ground," he says. Northwest Christians explore faith, art and culture 2011-04-22T23:34:36Z Ms. Dunye’s loose, confident approach to characterizations makes the political issues play in a narratively organic way rather than as a series of contrived polemics. ‘Caravaggio’ and Other Pleasures and Provocations for Pride Month 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The final chapter is on the "enemies" of Enlightenment, and continues the polemic first raised in Pagden's equally broad-brush book Worlds At War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East and West. The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z Some of the strong, serious polemic of the 70s is gone, replaced by books aimed at young women, often funny and featuring nods to self-help. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z However, the comic passages slyly ease you into an interwoven polemic about the hidden cost of those electronic minimarvels — the human cost not displayed on the price tag. Review: One-man show describes falling in and out of love with Steve Jobs' Apple gadgetry 2011-04-28T00:40:34Z An elegant and authoritative account of the peace tactics of Napoleon, based on sources in various languages, soon appeared, followed by the popular, yet strangely outdated, polemic against the Whig interpretation. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z I await enlightenment and remain anxious to be converted, but Wilson's pious polemic did not bring me to my knees. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z The novel is a prophecy and a warning from the past to the future, and never quite escapes the tethers of its polemic. The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu 2010-04-10T14:10:00Z Well, I didn't conceive of it as a polemic, I conceived of it as an entertaining tale. With 'Holy Cow,' David Duchovny is finally, officially a novelist 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z He eschews polemic—almost to a fault, given the horrors he describes. Keeping hope alive 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z But this book is no polemic supporting the necessary if heartless one-child policy. Book World: ‘Frog’ by Mo Yan 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z “It was a statement about the polemic about the veils in Switzerland: Should we ban them from public institutions or not?” he said. The Thriving Designers Who Dominate Beirut’s Flourishing Scene 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Was a Christian illustrator of the Hebrew text engaging in a subtle polemic? Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z Instagram, he writes in his latest polemic, "The Internet Is Not the Answer," "is a useful symbol of everything that has gone wrong with our digital culture over the last quarter century." Andrew Keen rages against the machine in 'The Internet Is Not the Answer' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Girl X is not a polemic in favour of the right of disabled people to choose their own lives, although that is where Softley's sympathies lie. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z It may be the polemic of an argumentative teenager, challenging our worldview. What corks can reveal about the wine in your bottle 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z This book is as much polemic as analysis. Four Books Explore Various Aspects of Cities Past and Present 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Moreover, this wide-ranging, many-legged evening of political song provides stimulation, polemic and some very sharp intakes of breath. Meltdown 2010: An Evening of Political Song; the Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z “Against Interpretation” is the mother of all contemporary click-bait intellectual polemics. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z A distinguished Berkeley sociologist, Hochschild is a woman of the left, but her mission is empathy, not polemics. Why Do People Who Need Help From the Government Hate It So Much? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Produced by No I.D., a longtime Common associate who also handled his solid previous album, “Nobody’s Smiling” is meant as a street polemic, a tangle of problems with no clear solutions. New Music: Common Has a New Album and Audra MacDonald as ‘Lady Day’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Lyons’s play, though, isn’t really about the book; it’s an imagining of what might happen to an author who wrote such a book and then decided to stop fighting the polemic fight. Review: In ‘Death of the Liberal Class,’ a Writer Tones Down His Anger 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Yet it is not the first passionate polemic to damage its impact by overstating its case. How Racism Is Destroying America 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z I still feel intensely proud when I hear it cited out of the context of the song, like last week when Lauren Laverne dropped it into a brilliant piece of polemic on 10 O'Clock Live. 'If you tolerate this ...': Nicky Wire on library closures 2011-02-07T22:00:01Z “Writing jokes is hard,” she said, commenting on talk show polemics. Best Comedy of 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z “Rat Film” isn’t a pure polemic and at times has an almost whimsical eye for the absurd. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z If care isn’t taken to love characters and plot as their own reward, then my journey easily ends in bad polemics. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Over the past few years she made a conscious decision to back some polemics. Lennie Goodings: 'Virago survived because it's a brand with a philosophy' 2013-07-20T07:30:01Z While not a polemic, the novel gives us a quiet, revolutionary statement about black innocence, which Celestial defines as “having no way to predict the pain of the future.” A Marriage Upended, a Life Destroyed 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z In spite of some efforts to interpret it as a veiled pro-Trump polemic, the film doesn’t track neatly with our current ideological agitations. ‘Richard Jewell’ Review: The Wrong Man 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Disappearing Dad: Timeshift Entertaining polemic by novelist Andrew Martin, tracking the changing role of fathers as reflected in fiction. Disappearing Dad: Timeshift 2010-06-29T07:00:00Z “We don’t look at the Middle East; we don’t look at the Bible; we aren’t making polemics,” says Clark. The Godfather – but with chimpanzees: on set with War for the Planet of the Apes 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Yet he is more interested in portraiture than polemic, and the book's second half settles down into a series of delicately-drawn studies of life among the ruins. The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli – review 2013-01-04T22:55:16Z There is a time and a place for history and a time and a place for polemics. Who Owns the American West? And Who Should Profit From It? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Scrupulously apolitical, “The Waiting Room” is the opposite of a polemic like Michael Moore’s “Sicko.” Movie Review: ‘The Waiting Room,’ About Highland Hospital, by Peter Nicks 2012-09-25T23:06:19Z As it was, it was Micky's writing – journalism, polemics, criticism, poetry, fiction, autobiography, social history, manifestos and much, much more – that became his voice. Goodbye, Mick Farren, activist, rabble-rousing rocker and NME journalist 2013-07-29T16:32:50Z Morrissey was unstinting in his contempt, though he transformed it into something much richer, stranger and funnier than mere polemic on the title track of The Queen Is Dead. Why pop stars won't be attacking the monarchy this jubilee 2012-06-01T12:01:08Z Yet “Killing a King” is not, at its core, a polemic about the echoing political consequences of Mr. Rabin’s murder, though its subtitle might imply as much. Review: ‘Killing the King,’ on the Murder That Claimed a Peace Process 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z But this is no polemic against safety measures. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z But “Bubbly Black Girl” is not a polemic; it’s a musical singularly equipped to demonstrate in sound that real integration, though still a dream, is inevitable. Review: ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ Lets a Smile Be Her Camouflage 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It did not emerge in his speech, an us-vs.-them polemic delivered in the rain and aimed to delight his base, “the forgotten men and women.” Mr. Reality TV Goes to Washington 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The inscrutability of Hamish Glen's production is compounded by a jittery narrative style in which everyone seems to speak in polemics or parables, making a straightforward plot incredibly difficult to follow. Too Much Pressure - review 2011-02-06T17:58:50Z Winchester clearly sees this as a problem, but his book is not a polemic, as much as one might sometimes wish it were. Looking at History Through the Deadly Conflicts Over Territory 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z “What he does — what we hoped to do — is present the complexity of it all. Present the complexity and avoid the polemic.” 'Homeland' Recap: In the Finale, Carrie's Suburban Fantasy Is Dashed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In a polemic that has echoes in the present day, he concludes: “The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The result is not so much a polemic as a personal investigation into the food industry and factory farming. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z However, there was also polemic at every turn. Planning for the future: how design students got serious 2010-07-13T13:18:00Z Both sides are using movies to try to win the debate, though actor Matt Damon says viewers should not assume the movie he stars in, "Promised Land," is "a rabid anti-fracking polemic." Insight: In fracking culture war, celebs, billionaires and banjos 2012-12-24T05:03:19Z Directed by Lixin Fan, "Last Train Home" is not a travelogue, a polemic or a history lesson, but simply a story of people, told with elegance and care. The most nightmarish holiday commute ever 2011-09-27T16:28:00Z During the early 1970s, he wrote a series of savage newspaper polemics attacking drug abuse, men's long hair, offensive advertising and anything else that apparently contributed to the decline of his adored pre-industrial Italy. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z The egotism woven into Kramer’s polemic is sometimes off the charts. ‘The Normal Heart’ still delivers passion and fury 2014-01-21T02:25:41Z The Spanish government refers to the group solely as terrorist organization, so the mention was removed to avoid fueling what Mr. Romero called “a bit of an artificial polemic.” As Culture Capital, San Sebastián Weighs the Theme of Peace 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z I don't agree with everything he says, but I admire the way he can illuminate the viewer about injustice without the polemic getting in the way. My TV hero: Faisal Islam on John Pilger 2011-08-01T19:00:09Z In a 2012 polemic, “Lying It All Away,” Le Guin writes scathingly of “growth capitalism” returning to its origins and “providing security for none but the strongest profiteers.” What we can learn from two literary masters: Ursula K. Le Guin and James Salter 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “There will always be viewers who want to reduce it to a political polemic.” The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z An agent provocateur for serial music before graduating and a master of hardball polemics, he caused even anxious luminaries like the aging Stravinsky to feel the need to earn his approval. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z It's generic angry-girl rock – not riot grrrl, because it doesn't have a polemic to back it up, just a series of signifiers to connote being born to be riled. New band of the day ? No 768: Pretty Reckless 2010-04-19T10:18:00Z Has his art vanished into the storm of polemic? Is Ai Weiwei still an artist? 2013-04-24T12:56:05Z Of course, Thompson’s assertion was inflated wartime polemic, not precise analysis. How ‘America First’ and ‘American Dream’ Went From Hazy Sentiments to Loaded Clichés 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z In a polemic, tractatus or tweet, Adam’s “experience of my experience” might amount to a proposition. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Q. This year the Oscars are beset by polemics: No black actor or actress in the selection for the second year in a row. Charlotte Rampling Says Oscars Boycott Is ‘Racist Against Whites’ 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Packed with facts, stories and polemics, the film traces the history of America's changing attitudes to drugs and the role of the criminal justice system in shaping those attitudes. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z The so-called New Atheists may claim the mantle of reason, not to mention a much wider audience, thanks to best sellers like Mr. Dawkins’s fire-breathing polemic, “The God Delusion.” Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z No matter how noble the sentiment, going public with your polemic leaves you open to ridicule – and the occasional slap if the dictum is provocative enough. Pornography is far too complicated to distil into a smart T-shirt slogan 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z The first, 2010's Witness the Night, won the Costa first novel award – and deservedly so; it somehow managed to deal with the hidden world of female infanticide in India without ever resorting to heavy-handed polemic. Origins of Love by Kishwar Desai – review 2013-01-26T18:30:01Z “It’s not a polemic, it’s not a diatribe,” Mr. Stewart said. Jon Stewart Tells Maziar Bahari’s Story With ‘Rosewater’ 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z But some close to Mr. Rushdie expressed reluctance to immediately use the attack as fodder for highly-politicized polemics on free speech. The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Taruskin’s polemics, he added, “ultimately served a constructive goal of taking classical music out of fantasyland and into the real world.” Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Hastily written to express the author’s outrage at the new administration, it was thin as drama and old-hat as polemic. Hard Truths or Easy Targets? Confronting the Summer of Trump Onstage 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z But whenever "Pullman Porter Blues" swaps music and wit for melodrama and polemics, immediacy shrivels into sermonizing. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z Our reviewer, Jonathan Lethem, called the book “a panorama, a rumination and a polemic at once,” which “delivers riches in return.” New in Paperback: ‘Notes on a Foreign Country,’ ‘The Seventh Function of Language’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Poetry is not polemic, but a much subtler knife. Books of The Times: Poems of Pain, the Raw and the Remembered 2011-02-09T23:57:30Z Critics had to be careful about turning their position into a platform for polemics, or about dispensing provocative generalizations, as he once gleefully had. An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Is “Philadelphia” a classic melodrama or bold, timely polemic? Perspective | Jonathan Demme, the last of the great journeyman directors 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Everyone said they wanted the polemic, so I set out some of the ideas behind my narrative of a rollicking clash between Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Trying to revive the Renaissance 2010-06-03T14:01:00Z Much of the book is closer to memoir or polemic – you need to take it on trust. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z Writing a female hero was a conscious decision "but if it doesn't come from the subconscious it'll just be a polemic, it'll reek," he says. Joss Whedon: 'I kept telling my mum reading comics would pay off' 2013-06-02T05:00:01Z As a first draft of history, “To Change the Church” is a high-wire act, an effort to maintain a balance between theology and polemics for a wide public. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z I fear I’ve made “J” sound polemic, but many readers are likely to wish Jacobson were, in fact, a little less elliptical. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future The best-known articulation of the problem of unequal access to the tools of writing is surely “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf’s clearsighted feminist polemic from 1929. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z He’s not softening his views, or renouncing the right-wing polemics he’s edited over the decades, some of which continue to kick up controversy. A Partisan Books Editor Places a Bet on Balance 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Over time, he made boring, infuriating, aggressively anti-pleasure polemics, and his language became more insular, private and cryptic. Godard Taught Me How to Watch Cinema, Even as He Kept Reinventing It 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z And of course, conceptually, “November” itself is in-between: theater and film, polemic and poem, documentary and interpretation. Review: A Poet’s Urgent Questions Fuel ‘November’ 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “He’s saying, ‘These are serious times and we can’t be distracted by polemics about gender and family. | François Hollande: Casanova or Lout? 2014-02-07T20:50:14Z His mentor was a landscape artist named William Kent, who used Stowe and other commissions to create gardens that were radically pastoral but full of classical temples and full, too, of symbolism and political polemic. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The result included enviable book sales, preposterous polemics, and the almost overnight development of a national media platform. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z The polemic generally goes on, responsibly and often a bit boringly, to enumerate any number of qualifications. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' 2011-01-30T20:30:00Z She became this vessel to look at the polemics, tensions and narratives around Latino life and its worth. ‘Anything for Selena’ Examines a Singer’s Legacy and Latino Identity 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z While previous works like “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women” and “Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man” were essentially polemics, her memoir is deeply personal. My Father, the Shapeshifter 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Love published the clip alongside what it called an “amazing polemic on female empowerment” written by Ms. Ratajkowski herself. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Can we find a way to discuss a collective fear that we’re overmedicating a generation of children without such polemics, or is it too late to frame the argument in a less combative way? Motherlode Blog: Rejecting Ritalin With the Power of Hindsight 2012-02-20T16:18:30Z Anti-colonial polemic enlivens prose about his quest for a place his fluid self might move within rigid lines of identity. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z He framed his comments about Gibson in a wider polemic about hypocrisy in Hollywood and the decline of western culture as a whole. Gary Oldman apologises for offending Jewish people after Playboy interview furore 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The Grammy winner’s microaggression polemic “Don’t Touch My Hair” was the exclamation point to her set, but other songs from her critically acclaimed “A Seat at the Table” better framed the moment. Review | In a time of political uncertainty, Broccoli City Festival is needed more than ever 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z “Page Eight” is yet another polemic that portrays Britain as America’s poodle. Television Review: David Hare?s ?Page Eight? on PBS - Review 2011-11-04T22:36:42Z It dates back at least to Tertullian’s passionate second-century polemic against Greek philosophy. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z While Under the Gun made a polemic case for gun control reforms and showed how, although central government may be stalling, at state level changes can be made. Sundance 2016: six things we learned from the film festival 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z This use of language effectively draws attention to the artifice of Brecht's polemic, while maintaining a semblance of living speech. Mother Courage and Her Children – review 2013-03-03T14:55:09Z But if you like thoughtful polemics, it is worth logging off Facebook to read it. You are not special 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z When “Harvey Milk” premiered in Houston in 1995, Edward Rothstein’s review in The New York Times called it “a rambunctious combination of banality and effective drama, posturing, playfulness and polemics.” An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z But this is a measured, careful work, not a “People’s History” polemic. When America’s Love of the Open Frontier Hit a Wall 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z We talked about all of those, but also the albums unique to each of our lists and the wild ingredients on each, chosen for reasons of passion or polemics. The Best Albums of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Our solution was not to be polemic or didactic on any one of these things. ArtsBeat: Emmy Nominees: Alex Gansa of ‘Homeland’ 2013-07-18T15:26:17Z It's full of marvels, a beguiling mix of criticism and polemic, of memoir and manifesto. Stage to page: do books about theatre ever live up to the real thing? 2011-02-24T13:11:19Z “I’m not very good at polemic or strong public opinions,” he said. Mr. Rogers?s Very Tough Neighborhood 2011-11-20T16:57:52Z A polemic is an aggressive attack on the opinions and principles of others. Books of The Times: ?Drift? by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Traces American Militarism 2012-03-28T22:36:04Z Nor was Abortion Papers meant as a polemic, at least in Jackson's mind. Is Michael Jackson on abortion controversial? Let's look at his work 2012-09-25T14:01:03Z He reduces complex issues of cyber and information warfare to essentials, and his polemic is leavened with humor and sympathy. Former C.I.A. Head Michael Hayden Warns of an ‘Assault on Intelligence’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z An invigorating polemic by Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel medicine laureate and recently anointed president of the Royal Society. Tonight's TV highlights: Horizon: Science Under Attack 2011-01-24T00:04:00Z And it would also confuse, because it might also lay to rest the undead misconception that “Specific Objects” was Mr. Judd’s polemic for Minimalism, a term he strongly disliked and rarely used. ‘Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella,’ at Dominique Lévy 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z And even if my voice goes before I do, I shall continue to write polemics against religious delusions, at least until it's hello darkness my old friend. Christopher Hitchens asks fans not to pray for him 2010-09-06T10:08:00Z There are two instrumentals, back catalogue obscurities, experimental oddities and polemics in Portuguese. Readers recommends songs about South America: The results 2010-06-24T22:00:00Z He doesn’t lapse into the polemic of some policy wonks who too often want to make every error seem foreseeable or the product of some unforgivable flaw. A Sweeping History of What We Eat 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z She became an acclaimed novelist, though it was for her nonfiction polemic, “Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society,” that she is best known. Kate Figes, Feminist Author on Family Life, Dies at 62 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z He's a comedian first and polemicist second, but what would he be without the polemics? Eddie Pepitone: 'I'm just another clown on the bus like you' 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics and pellucid memoir; straightforward narration and constellated word games. An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z I’m actually not planning to do any more writing about religious polemic. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z An English teacher introduced him to George Bernard Shaw and within a month he was "hooked on polemic". M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z There is a groaning bookshelf full of polemics assailing Mr. Cheney. Review: In ‘Exceptional,’ the Cheneys Make Obama the Villain 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Neither serious polemic nor personal memoir, the book ends up somewhere in between in the murky vagueness of the self-help genre. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z The polemic among them is Thomas Frank’s “Pity the Billionaire,” about which Michael Kinsley writes: As you can tell from its ham-fisted title, “Pity the Billionaire” is not the world’s most subtle political critique. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Bipolar America 2012-01-06T22:10:19Z And skillfully made as they are, such visual polemics probably won’t age well. Review | In the galleries: ‘Finding a Path’ is framed as a dialogue between two nature artists 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z They do not have a polemic, a style or a grand theory. Britain's best young architects 2011-01-09T00:04:06Z The form announces a polemic—probably a cranky one, and very likely an unfair one. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Orenstein’s stance isn’t simple polemic: She admits that the challenges of growing up female in America are much bigger than princess culture. Seattle stages will soon be packed with princesses. Is that a problem? 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z In adult company, you might find yourself debating whether the film is a Christopher Hitchens-style atheist polemic or a more pragmatic, William Jamesian exploration of the varieties of religious experience. ‘Sausage Party’ Is an Animated Sex Comedy About Food ... and God 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Ken Loach’s polemic exposes that term as a euphemism for a much less glamorous reality. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z This social staple is the subject of The We and the I, Michel Gondry's polemic against the wisdom of the herd, which opened the director's fortnight at the . Cannes 2012: The We and the I ? review 2012-05-18T14:52:56Z But while he isn’t shy about articulating his politics — “I’m very anti-Israel, I’m occupied and I don’t like it” — polemics don’t interest him artistically. In ‘Grey Rock,’ a Palestinian Playwright Tackles the Ordinary 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z An exploration of the unremitting wounds of slavery and racism, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s “Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine,” at Two River Theater here, is less a play than a poignant, often powerful polemic. Review: ‘Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine’ Takes On Race 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z In “The Utopia of Rules,” a polemic about bureaucracy published last year, the anthropologist David Graeber wonders why paperwork is not the subject of more inquiry by his colleagues. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z How Hirsi Ali came to denounce her faith was the basis for her earlier book, the global best seller “Infidel,” a sharp polemic against Islam nestled inside a rich literary memoir. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s ‘Heretic’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Sunday 3 October The Genius Of British Art7pm, Channel 4 A new series that tells the story of British art through the polemics of six different presenters. Commonwealth Games 2010-10-02T05:45:00Z Beggars Banquet is not a polemic or manifesto. Why the Specials' Ghost Town is still the sound of a country in crisis 2011-08-09T15:42:04Z The moderator was Norman Mailer, fresh off the controversy of his anti-feminist polemic "The Prisoner of Sex." When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Although Siegel's over-the-top polemic prompted a number of swift attacks, it's hard to deny that at least some of what he said hit a nerve. A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z Pop Art, adaptable to polemic, was tuned into all of this. Pop Art International: Far Beyond Warhol and Lichtenstein 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z There’s a laziness to his polemic: a lack of examples, arguments that unfold much too quickly to gather their full powers of persuasion, writing that chokes on excessive metaphor. Click ‘Delete’ to Save Your Soul 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z German restaurants, inns and beer gardens bore the title of the anti-slavery polemic, which became a shorthand for a type of Southern comfort – evidence of the novel's complex, counterintuitive and, at times, disturbing reception. Germany’s strange nostalgia for the antebellum American South 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z It's an ardent polemic, straightforwardly and movingly told. Ken Loach, the 79-year-old British director, has had 12 films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival over the years, including his Palme d'Or-winning "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, this two-for-one bundle of South Asian polemics panders to Western values and preys on Western ignorance. 'Unfreedom,' with stale perspectives and gratuitous sex, has a hollow ring 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z When you want to write "politically" — and that's your initial impetus going forward — you have to be careful because you do not want the work to turn into a polemic or a dialectic. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The book is a wonderful refutation of Trump’s nativism and bigotry, but it is no partisan polemic. What Trump Can Learn From a Gold Star Family 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z This usefully allows the material to be less of a period piece — because, happily for Sister Helen, her polemic is somewhat dated. Review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ Opens a Met Season Heavy on the New 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The Mill on the Floss is about the rise and fall of a Lincolnshire family and moves subtly between humour, polemic and tragedy. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z Beasts and Chi-Raq are both passionate polemics about black characters dealing with seemingly insurmountable odds without help from kindly white folk. Black films matter: why Chi-Raq and Beast of No Nation are game-changers 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This has the trappings of a righteous polemic. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Critics as well as scientists must base their claims on evidence, not polemics. Letters to the Editor 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But instead of pulsing with freewheeling energy, it sags under its earnest polemics. Movie Review: ‘The Return of Lencho,’ Directed by Mario Rosales 2012-11-09T00:34:13Z Readers with a different attitude about Kashmir’s rightful status will disagree, but “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” never descends into polemics, no matter how broad its sympathies. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z As for “Bad Call,” it never ends up succeeding as a polemic. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z A: I must say I'm not too positive about this polemic that's been set up by the press, Wagner against Verdi. A Minute With:-Royal Opera's Pappano: "No idea I'd be a conductor" 2013-10-16T13:02:56Z Vallejo, known in Colombia for both his polemic rants and gritty literature, is no stranger to controversy. How novelist Fernando Vallejo's work reveals Colombia's deep divisions 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z And even if my voice goes before I do, I shall continue to write polemics against religious delusion, until it’s hello darkness my old friend. Hitchens faces his mortality 2012-09-04T17:19:00Z This polemic can be seen as the product of a man “warped,” perhaps equally, by both his own dyspeptic personality and the repressive times in which he lived. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z But Morton's work is a brilliantly awkward study of human idiocy rather than polemic. Have you been watching ? Twenty Twelve? 2011-04-04T14:37:06Z But those people also seemed OK with a film that was not overly polemic. “ACORN and the Firestorm”: A withering chronicle of death by media 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z To be honest, Boulez's polemics have often been part of that perceptual problem. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z But “If Venice Dies” is practically devoid of history, a criminal oversight for a polemic that makes such an impassioned case for history’s value. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Others like Rain show their devotion in deeper ways, painstakingly constructing videos and epic polemics that weave together court papers and obscure interviews, then sharing and resharing their work across multiple platforms. Michael Jackson Fans Are Tenacious. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Has Them Poised for Battle. 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, said that Mr. Breitbart “used the tools of invective and polemic to change the conversation, to try to turn it to his advantage.” The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart 2012-04-13T23:02:42Z Now along comes Vadim Jean's crusading polemic, lobbying for the release of the two who remain behind bars and lifting the lid on all manner of institutionalised American madness. Film review: In the Land of the Free 2010-03-25T23:45:00Z But has it been difficult to point out things like that, without the whole thing becoming too much of a polemic? RedShirt – or what happens when Facebook meets Star Trek 2013-05-01T10:01:14Z Politique polemics gave way to intimations of mortality, and creative immortality. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z The search wasn’t easy, as bouillabaisse is steeped in myths, tradition and gastronomic polemics. In Search of the Real Bouillabaisse, Marseille’s Gift to the Fish Lover 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes prizes become caught up in nationalist polemics. Académie Française Honor Highlights Fluid National Allegiances Among Writers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Her eyes were fixed with no great curiosity on aspot on the ceiling, her heart no doubt longing to be delivered from the tedium of polemic. Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z She grapples with the uses of language: polemic, code, story, verdict and vow. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z The new novel, “Compass,” which won the 2015 Prix Goncourt, France’s highest literary honor, is as much an essay, a compendium, a rant and a polemic as it is a work of fiction. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, 'Compass' by Mathias Enard is brilliant and frustrating 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Klingenstein was referring to the continuing furor around “The Flight 93 Election,” an incendiary pro-Trump polemic that appeared in September on the website of The Claremont Review of Books, the institute’s flagship publication. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Glimpsing the future, she grasps the lucrative potential for a channel willing to dispense with all journalistic integrity and broadcast partisan polemic instead. Michelle Dockery: 'I consider myself a widow' 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Among Dr. Seuss’s books, “The Lorax” is strikingly apocalyptic and unusually polemic. Perspective | Is Dr. Seuss’s Lorax real? These professors may have solved a 47-year-old mystery. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But these coherently interpreted characters do not add up to a coherent interpretation of the play, which wobbles between shouty polemics and a kind of Tudor snark. Review: Danai Gurira Makes a Sleek Supervillain of Richard III 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z But in today’s post-dogma period, without the polemics to endure, Mr. Wuorinen’s arrestingly complex works have been capturing the imaginations and challenging a new generation of musicians who have never seen his composition textbook. 2010-02-12T17:26:00Z But I didn’t want my book to be some dreary polemic—I wanted it to be fun. My fancy law firm hell: I set up a Scale of Dismay to measure the degree to which my job was ruining my life 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “It is true that it was a polemic project, because of its dimension and because of its cost,” he said. Next Stop: Culture Pilgrims in Santiago de Compostela 2011-08-19T15:00:00Z The late Robert Hughes wrote his own epitaph in his 1993 polemic Culture of Complaint, where he inveighed against the banal politicisation of art and championed instead the importance of quality. In praise of … Robert Hughes 2012-08-07T19:42:13Z Although my work is sometimes political, I have always tried to stay far away from polemics. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z It won best director at Cannes in 1995, but the police – believing it to be a polemic against them – turned their backs on the team when providing a ceremonial guard at the festival. How La Haine lit a fire under French society 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Wolfe’s is two books in one: first, a polemic, aimed at Trump and his supporters, and at the broader fabric of our age; second, a brief intellectual history of modern America. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The familiar polemics and slogans that spread through so many other testimonial writings from that time, like a dull gray dye, here barely intrude. A Young Poet, a Mysterious Stranger and an El Salvador on the Brink of War 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z So Genesis is powerful polemic, that allows its readers to be soberly realistic about the tragic state of the world, and yet live in hope, courage and purposefulness. The Book of Genesis, part 4: The problem and the answer 2011-01-03T10:00:02Z “An Italian was hired to run the National Gallery in London and there were no polemics over that,” he said. German Art Historian to Direct Uffizi Gallery in Italy 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Marlantes hasn’t written an allegorical polemic about contemporary business — his primary concerns are the romantic fortunes of the siblings and the shifting fates of the workers. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z It would have been easy for the film to lapse into polemic, or mawkish sentimentality; it did neither, treading a fine line between the two and ending in hubris. TV review: The Promise, You Don't Know Jack and Storyville: American Idol ? Reagan 2011-02-07T08:00:05Z “I did not fit neatly into any political party and had no taste or talent for polemics,” he wrote. Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z But “Beyond Sacred” is an exercise in empathy, not polemics: a lesson in human understanding, drawn from real lives. Review: ‘Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity,’ Young New Yorkers Tell Their Stories 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Throughout the book, to emphasize the rightness of her polemic, Jacoby, who turns 65 this year, discusses her mother and grandmother and famous people and not-so-famous strangers. 'Never Say Die' examines marketing of the myth of a golden old age 2011-02-16T23:37:59Z In other words, this book is a vigorous polemic in the classical sense of that word — a sharply focused argument in support of a debatable point of view. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The emerging polemic is increasingly urgent and sobering, albeit less emotionally involving than it began. Two brothers, one Christian, one Muslim, try to bridge their worlds in 'Bars and Measures' 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z For all its talking points, it never falls into polemic. Daveed Diggs: ‘Days before I started on Hamilton, I got thrown against a fence by police’ 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The writers Lozada admires, left and right, step beyond the usual polemics about “fake news” and “identity politics” and the #MeToo movement. Does an Intellectual History of the Trump Era Exist? It Does Now 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Now there is a growing bookshelf full of polemics assailing Mr. Obama. Review: In ‘Exceptional,’ the Cheneys Make Obama the Villain 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But the sum of the parts is undeniably powerful, as the story grows beyond itself to become both a potent polemic and heartbreaking elegy. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z His sculpture is multidimensional — like America itself — not a monolithic polemic. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z It is tempting to think that the influence of those dusty polemics ebbed as the dust accumulated. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Anyway – thanks for the homage, guys, and who knows I may even pop to Cambridge to see if there's anything more to this show than polemic. My stuckist portrait: I'm flattered | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-18T11:03:00Z I once interviewed a rap band who thrilled me with two hours of blistering polemic and headline-worthy quotes, but my recording device captured two hours of silence. Dave Simpson on dodgy Dictaphones 2011-03-02T21:45:00Z But the latest example of polemic vest culture leaves me wanting to slap its agent provocateur. Pornography is far too complicated to distil into a smart T-shirt slogan 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Over the years, in scores of interviews, Simon has consistently made the point that The Wire was a show with an editorial agenda, a polemic about "the America that got left behind". Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z The polemic of Bullet in the Head confirmed that Rage remain a sledgehammer of a band. Rage Against the Machine 2010-06-06T23:53:00Z As it happened, for all the polemics about women’s voting in newspapers of the period, hard evidence of their participation was scant. On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z “It’s open season, always-justified legalized genocide of black Americans,” Crump adds, “Open Season” being the title of his 2019 polemic on criminal injustice. Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Half a century after its debut, it retains its potency as a motivational weapon of resistance, a polemic against despoilers and a reasoned paean to biological diversity, priceless petroglyphs and the heavenly solitude of wilderness. President Trump, Please Read ‘Desert Solitaire’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z French writer Salmon here treats us to the useful spectacle of a relentless polemic against a ubiquitous idea widely held to provoke only positive feelings. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Where to Invade Next,” is a sprawling, didactic polemic wittily disguised as a European travelogue. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z All right, one of them posted semi-serious polemics and was a little tight with the likes. I tried to cut 100 Facebook friends. One was Meryl Streep. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Hong’s book wanders a variegated terrain of memoir, criticism and polemic, oscillating between smooth proclamations of certainty and twitches of self-doubt. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Though Macqueen successfully argues that US drug laws are racist, it's a disjointed film, part bitty social documentary, part polemic, whereby Macqueen relies heavily on his participants to make his point. Our Drugs War 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z One of the more recent and ballyhooed polemics against Roosevelt was "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," a 2007 bestseller by Amity Shlaes. Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Instead, I situate my characters in what can seem like a challenging historical context — the period when France controlled a colonial empire — without resorting to caricature or engaging in polemic. The National Book Awards' translated-lit longlist is here. Of course David Diop is on it 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Unlike other law enforcement continuing education, such as firearms training, the sheriffs’ curriculum is largely a polemic on the alleged constitutional underpinnings of sheriffs’ absolute authority to both interpret and refuse to enforce certain laws. A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z In every race, in every discussion, in every polemic, there is always a good power and a bad power, good guys and bad guys. 'F1 is a great show; you need to play a character' 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z His Glastonbury set opened with the angry, antagonistic Hate, followed quickly by Plastic, a polemic about the seductive but reductive allure of consumer culture. Loyle Carner: The secrets of the rapper's powerful and personal Glastonbury set 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z In 2008, he published "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War," a polemic that literally argued the world would have been much better if the democracies had simply stood aside and allowed Hitler to conquer Europe. Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Grossi added that he would “never enter into a polemic” with the head of government of a member of the IAEA. U.N. nuclear chief, facing Israeli criticism on Iran, says his agency ‘very fair but firm’ 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z What Rufo is talking about is a classic bait-and-switch — cutting and pasting a polemic from one place into another for a strategic advantage. DeSantis' DEI boogeyman is all wrong 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z While the case does not directly relate to generative AI, Justice Neil Gorsuch noted that AI tools that generate "poetry" and "polemics" likely would not enjoy such legal protections. YouTube case at Supreme Court could shape protections for ChatGPT and AI 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Speaking of paying attention, you have patiently endured my polemic to get to the good news. Perspective | Even moderate drinking is bad for us. Enter nonalcoholic beer. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Part dogged investigation, part extended polemic, “Picasso the Foreigner” is organized around a provocative claim: Because of his immigrant background, Picasso was continually rejected and marginalized by the French establishment. Review | What a new book gets wrong about Picasso’s time in France 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z It ends up falling somewhere in between: a softer polemic coupled with a collection of “conceptual tools” to consider “what ‘your time’ has to do with the time you live in.” Review | A collection of tools designed to help us make our time our own again 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The BBC's Mexico correspondent, Will Grant, says it is perhaps the most polemic political issue in Mexico at present. Mexico passes controversial reform of election watchdog 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z “This polemic resists any dogmatic answer,” said conductor James Conlon, music director of the LA Opera and principal conductor of Italy’s Orchestra RAI. How fast should Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony be performed? 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z She called the polemics a "frankly very minor issue in terms of international politics". Italy's Meloni says France risks undermining EU unity on Ukraine 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z You could ask your friend to keep in touch, but not to send you polemics. Advice | Ask Amy: My friend sent an email that ruined my Thanksgiving 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The book becomes more collage than polemic, bringing many fragments together to see what emerges. Review | A collection of tools designed to help us make our time our own again 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z If there’s a real-world metaphor in the central conflict, it could be a polemic against governmental regulation of climate change. Review: Reimagined Chinese legends power the visual marvel 'New Gods: Yang Jian' 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z This borrowed cloak of newsiness reduces the complexity of fiction into a single-minded polemic. 'The Deluge,' an epic new climate novel, drowns us in catastrophes 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Part polemic, part revisionist criticism, “Eve Bites Back,” as its title suggests, is sharp and aggressive, a book that will irritate, enlighten, persuade and provoke argument. Review | Female authors have long been slighted. A new book seeks a corrective. 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “These voices in the mass media, they abused their power for making a primitive polemics against him. But they have no future,” Mueller said of the often negative press that Benedict received. German cardinal guards Benedict’s intellectual legacy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Partisan literary voices lined up on both sides of the dispute, which widened into allegations that powerful journalists had exerted influence in the polemics, and the matter was never resolved. John Corry, Former Times Reporter and TV Critic, Dies at 89 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Best alternative act went to grime-punk duo Bob Vylan, whose gripping second album The Price Of Life is a furious polemic about wealth inequality and the cost of living crisis. Mobo Awards: Little Simz and Knucks tie for best album prize 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z This film is political, but it’s not a polemic. 'Triangle of Sadness' director Ruben Ostlund is no misanthrope. He just loves failure 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Davis wrote what he said were “impassioned polemics on the necessity of the urban left.” D.J. Waldie, a onetime critic of Mike Davis, praises his immense influence 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The Mussolini portrait will be taken down "to avoid polemics and manipulations," the industry ministry said in a statement. Row over Mussolini photo as Italy's Meloni readies for power 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z It was an anti-tipping polemic, wildly outdated now, that led a number of states to ban the practice. Help! Tipping in Seattle has become a psychological minefield 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The bad news is that Shriver’s affinity for the polemic has infected her fiction. Review | Lionel Shriver taunts the ‘culture police’ and more in her new book 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z I’m not good at polemic of any kind. How Trump's election set 'Less; author Andrew Sean Greer off on a road trip — and a sequel 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z No, that doesn’t make Carrie’s story feel dated or read like a polemic. Review | For Serena fans, ‘Carrie Soto Is Back’ imagines a happy postscript 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z An abolitionist’s polemic didn’t break the news that slavery exists; it argued that slave holding was incompatible with the country’s values and urged ways to put an end to it. Opinion journalism matters now more than ever 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z A turning point came in January 2018, when Mr. Bausman posted a lengthy polemic, “It’s Time to Drop the Jew Taboo,” that was both an antisemitic manifesto and a call to action for the alt-right. An American’s Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z He called on the faithful to “abandon our polemics” over the liturgy, which he said risked the very communion and unity of the Catholic Church. Pope urges end to ideological polemics over old Latin Mass 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z He also said he would never take on a "polemic party job" in politics because "my mental health is not robust enough to deal with it and I wouldn't put my family through it". Martin Lewis says he was rejected by House of Lords 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z It was seen as a polemic, about the need for a new British Bill of Rights. Is Dominic Raab's quest to reform human rights law almost over? 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Successful organizers will navigate the mismatch between the polemic and possibility that animate social movements and the slow grinding that characterizes institutional politics. Perspective | What the gun control movement can learn from the antiabortion movement 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Some readers criticized her later books as polemics, preferring the colorful travelogue entries to her anti-capitalist and sometimes anti-American diatribes. Dervla Murphy, intrepid author of travel books, dies at 90 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z In his excoriating polemic, Horne noted: "Australia is a Lucky Country run mainly by second-rate people." How Australia became the anxious country 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “There was no support in American law. … Zero. None,” Alito’s polemic asserts, like a campaign ad. Opinion | Supreme Court’s hacks reward Republicans’ betrayal of democracy 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z In short, this sounds like we’re in store for a straightforward polemic against government oppression. Review | ‘Ahed’s Knee’: A film about Israel that is as divided as its subject 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z It's a rightly furious polemic designed to ignite anger and outrage. Prima Facie: Critics praise Jodie Comer in her West End debut 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The refusal became a polemic in the state. Abortion access still difficult after historic Mexico ruling 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Reed is a political scientist known for his Marxist interpretations and combative polemics, but “The South” is a different kind of book. Review | How the South was transformed by the fall of Jim Crow, and how it wasn’t 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “I have always respected the rules,” she said on French television on Wednesday night, adding that the accusations were “pure polemic.” With France’s presidential election six weeks away, some of Macron’s challengers struggle to get on the ballot 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z But as his profile has risen, so, too, has the intensity of the pervasive culture-war polemics that make such a refuge increasingly rare, and possibly untenable. ‘An Environmentalist With a Gun’: Inside Steven Rinella’s Hunting Empire 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z He said he was “honored and moved” but didn’t want to be the cause of “polemics or lacerations” in a nation still struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. Berlusconi drops bid to be elected as Italy’s president 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z However, he said the play was an entertainment piece, rather than a political polemic. Dennis Skinner play to chart life of 'Beast of Bolsover' 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Still, if “Mass” had been a polemic or politically minded, Plimpton says, it’s unlikely it would have garnered as much interest from those involved. 'Mass' gives Ann Dowd and Martha Plimpton the spotlights they deserve 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The private, excoriating grief of friends and family seems to have been subsumed by the wider - albeit important and valid - reactions of protest and polemic, marches and mass mourning. Sarah Everard: Daughter, sister, friend and colleague 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z These messages could also trigger polemics from the right. Hollywood’s climate-change crusade has a whole new wave of energy — and hurdles 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Pakistan and India, which goes Saturday, are historically eager users of the “right of reply” function, which allows diplomats to lob polemics defending their countries in response to speeches from unfriendly nations. Women’s voices at UN General Assembly few, but growing 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z And I can truthfully claim that I am quite at home in any genre — from poetry to polemics. 'At long last, Idunit!' Wole Soyinka on his first novel in nearly 50 years 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The official boost for Mr. Li’s polemic startled Chinese political and business circles when doubt had already been rising about the growing role of the Communist Party in the economy. Incendiary Essay Ignites Guessing Over Xi’s Plans for China 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z When asked at his morning news conference on Tuesday about the Supreme Court’s deliberations, Mr. López Obrador refused to offer his view on the issue, which he called “controversial” and “polemic.” Mexico’s Supreme Court Votes to Decriminalize Abortion 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The private, coruscating grief of friends and family seemed to have been subsumed by the wider - albeit important and valid - reactions of protest and polemic, marches and mass mourning. Sarah Everard: Daughter, sister, friend and colleague 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Taylor doesn’t seek to salve such pain, but neither has he written a polemic. Review | The young United States’ manifest uncertainty 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z It helped us ground our histories, freeing them from being just polemics,” he said. In Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers Are History Written by the Defeated 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z “Remembering” is not, however, a manifesto, a polemic or even a confessional. Column: Sinéad O'Connor isn't looking for sympathy with her new memoir, just a little truth 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Wolff said that was an "intelligent rule" and a "nice incentive to make sure that all the polemic such a situation provokes is out of the question because nobody could doubt it". Monaco Grand Prix: all you need to know 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z His comeback single, All You Ever Wanted, meanwhile, is a raucous, guitar-driven polemic about the decimation of the UK's live music industry. Rag 'n' Bone Man on fame, tattoos and fatherhood 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Labour's shadow women and equalities secretary Marsha de Cordova labelled the report a "divisive polemic" that downplayed institutional racism. Campaigners criticise 'deeply cynical' race report 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Kapil Komireddi’s March 21 Outlook essay, “How India’s leader built a cult of personality,” was a bitter polemic targeting the prime minister of India. Opinion | Indians show through elections that they like their prime minister 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z She adds: "I don't think it's a polemic against men, but it's a polemic against the culture that we all grew up in which tends to side with men more than it does with women." Promising Young Woman: Carey Mulligan film 'deeply troubling' 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Initially, she wasn’t really a fan of my idea, wasn’t interested in being involved and worried that it would be a polemic against her. Here's how HBO Max doc 'There Is No "I" in Threesome' pulled off the shocking twist 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z When first asked on Monday whether he would set an example by wearing a mask, he skipped the question and instead launched into a polemic about his adversaries trying to thwart him. 'No, no.': Mexican president rejects mask-wearing after COVID-19 recovery 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z “As a technical matter,” Saunders claims, “fiction doesn’t support polemic very well. Because the writer invents all the elements, a story isn’t really in a position to ‘prove’ anything. Thrilling little machines: George Saunders analyzes Russian short fiction 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z That recurring motif is the closest thing to feminist polemic in a movie that’s more interested in getting on with it — with humor, bravado and panache — than proving a point. Review | ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is two movies: A fun one, and a bloated, grandiose one 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Hearing the premise and watching the trailer, it would be easy to think Promising Young Woman is a feminist polemic which unfairly tarnishes all men with the same brush. Promising Young Woman: Carey Mulligan film 'deeply troubling' 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The angry polemics that divide our country are especially fierce among religious people who draw radically different moral and political imperatives from the same scripture and the same tradition. Opinion | This Christmas, we’re turning darkness into light 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Nearly as quickly, her interview was labeled on social media as containing “false information,” while scientists rejected her research as a polemic dressed up in jargon. How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionaire Created a Right-Wing Coronavirus Media Sensation 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “Oceans Apart” is his powerful polemic which charges the rugby world of ignoring its own values in allowing the continuing plunder of Pacific talent. Documentary paints bleak picture of Pacific Islands rugby 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z What occurred is less mysterious than the polemics between the party’s wings would suggest. Opinion | Why the GOP is sticking with Trump’s election deceit 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The book is light on political theory but rich in factual detail; entirely devoid of polemic, yet full of sober analysis. Review | Why human progress is inextricably linked to war 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “I say this with all my strength and from my heart: Enough. Don’t fuel polemics.” Italy shuts down 4 regions as Europe tries lighter lockdowns 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z At the same time, the political season - which this year feels the most polemic we have seen in the modern age - has led to another layer of attacks on signs supporting one candidate over another. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z There are no cheap shots or in-person ambushes here; the polemics are sober, restrained and all the more authoritative for it. Review: Trump said COVID-19 was 'Totally Under Control.' A new documentary unpacks why it wasn't 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z While some End Notes refer to official data, many point to ideological marketing organizations like the Heritage Foundation and polemics based on a priori assumptions. This should be American workers’ future, say House Republicans 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The debate over school dress was also framed by the resurgence of the long-standing polemic over Muslim headscarves, seen as an affront to France’s secular foundations. Crop tops or ‘republican’ dress? France debates schoolwear 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Lawrence O. Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University, said the Pennsylvania ruling is “a bit of a polemic” and lacks nuance. Courts may reconsider temporary coronavirus restrictions as pandemic drags on 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z There’s a clear hunger for polemics like The Social Dilemma, even if most people view big tech companies favorably. Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The book concludes with a celebration of Rachel Carson’s iconic environmental polemic Silent Spring, which in 1962 revealed the widespread environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT. Can the history of pollution shape a better future? 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z While we legitimately want to keep partisanship and polemics out of our news coverage, we need to stop banishing our humanity and the passions that made us become journalists in the first place. Are we witnessing the final collapse of "objective" political reporting? Let's hope so 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z He referred to Gleeson’s report as a “polemic” and had urged the court not to get pulled into a “political spectacle.” Appeals court orders judge to dismiss criminal case against Michael Flynn 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z He called Mr. Gleeson’s brief attacking Mr. Barr’s decision to end the case a “polemic,” but said it would harm the executive branch to have to defend itself against it. Court Seems Open to Allowing Judge to Scrutinize Bid to Drop Flynn Case 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z He argued it would pull the judiciary into a fight over Gleeson’s “almost polemic” claims that “the president and the attorney general have engaged in grave misconduct,” and subject the Justice Department to intrusive questions. Court appears reluctant to order judge to immediately drop criminal case against Michael Flynn 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z This is when political and polemic theater could help get audiences back into the theater. 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Moral clarity in news journalism isn't partisan or polemic. Are we witnessing the final collapse of "objective" political reporting? Let's hope so 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has tapped Mr. Navarro, a California economist best known for polemics against China, to be a conduit between the Oval Office and defense firms. Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z But it is hard to see such a public platform that encourages polemics and harsh rhetoric being effective in preventing inadvertent escalation. The US and Iran are still perilously close to conflict | Ali Vaez 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Flores takes on female power, government corruption, war and international pop culture polemics. Peru’s Queen of Quechua Rap Fuses the Transgressive and Traditional 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z So while Ms. Petri’s wit and satire were entertaining, her polemic was both insulting and inaccurate. Opinion | Many people are buying guns out of genuine concern during the pandemic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z In lesser hands, Marozzi’s central thesis would be a more obvious and shrill polemic. Review | In 16 centuries of Islamic history, gilded kingdoms and faded glories 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z In “Hood Feminism,” Kendall also targets the widespread denigration of the poor, providing both a deeply personal portrait of want and a polemic that brings race and gender into the discussion of poverty. Review | An American tradition: Shaming the poor 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Keller calls Jesus' polemic here "a brilliant move". Is the coronavirus God's judgment? Pastor weighs in 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “It’s a difficult topic, especially in America today, like literally today. I think the hope is not to polarize or be polemic, but to at least incite dialogue. That’s what’s exciting about this movie.” Abortion is still a taboo movie topic. 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' fights to do it justice 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Which — because this is not just another bit of Zlatan-skeptical polemic — suggests M.L.S., which opens its 25th season this weekend, does not always go with the script. Which League Is Best? The One Your Team Is In 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Charged with polemic, her artworks express profound skepticism of powerful figures and clear-cut binaries. 'The right has no trouble speaking their rage': Artist Barbara Kruger on America in crisis 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Not because it’s a polemic, or making a point about urban blight and the responsibility of the black man to address it, but because people ultimately want to be entertained. Showrunner Courtney A. Kemp: 'Power' fought a racist double standard — and won 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The ads, which sometimes ran for several minutes apiece, were a potpourri of right-wing polemics wrapped in “subscribe now” appeals. Epoch Times, Punished by Facebook, Gets a New Megaphone on YouTube 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The goal isn’t to write polemics, but songs that will touch people and not immediately feel dated. Southern band takes on Trump as impeachment vote nears 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He later said that because of the polemics, in future editions of the book, Benedict would be named as a contributor and not a co-author. Ex-pope Benedict wants name removed from new book - aide 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Donald Trump Jr.’s best-selling new book, “Triggered,” fails as memoir and as polemic: Its analysis is facile, its hypocrisy relentless, its self-awareness marginal. Review | Donald Trump Jr.’s ‘Triggered’ reads like a campaign book for 2024 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The excerpted works that followed were far more eclectic than the opening polemics suggested. The Asian-American Canon Breakers 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties,” he wrote in Areopagitica, one of the great polemics against censorship. From Milton to Pullman, the quest for truth is riddled with ambiguity | Kenan Malik 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z This is the first Twitter-era impeachment, and we are all drowning in verbiage and polemics. House impeaches Trump: part history, part reality show 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s a poem and a polemic, an exploratory independent drama and a varnished Hollywood epic, a bold, even visionary work that is not without its compromises. Review: 'A Hidden Life' is Terrence Malick's strongest film in nearly a decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Outer Worlds is a political polemic built on video game logic. The Outer Worlds is a cruel twist on role-playing games’ lone hero stories 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z In that regard, “Desk 88” — which combines short biographies of Brown’s progressive Senate predecessors with his own policy prescriptions for 21st-century America — might be wrongly dismissed as a mere campaign polemic. Review | The eight stalwart progressives who shared one Senate desk 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z There’s also a beautiful essay about Chinese aesthetics and a polemic against Christopher Hitchens, which I enjoyed. Edwin Frank: ‘The best art is often powerfully irrelevant’ 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z He defended the renovation, saying he consulted members of the diaspora to reframe the museum’s narrative without denying its polemic history. Belgium confronts ugly colonial past, but African museum renovations don't please everyone 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Five months ago, he burst into the German mainstream with a 55-minute carefully written YouTube polemic telling his followers not to vote for Merkel’s conservative party in the elections for the European Parliament. The German YouTuber Emerging as the Voice of a Generation 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Bloom’s cultural polemics were sharp-tongued and colourful, but his smile was warm and boyish. Harold Bloom obituary 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z As might be expected in a book by New York Times reporters, “Border Wars” avoids polemics in favor of a fact-based account of what precipitated some of this administration’s more brazen assaults on immigration. Review | Build that wall, and paint the pointy parts ‘flat black’! 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Notwithstanding the Times’ political leaning, the placement of her polemic against the president in the Calendar section of the paper seems inappropriate. Calendar Feedback Sun., Oct. 13, 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z He then broke away, declaring his intellectual independence first with coded critiques and then with unabashed polemics. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z This is a brief, extremely passionate polemic on the issue of immigration, which of course is a very heated subject in America, where the book was aimed at originally, as well as everywhere else. On my radar: Salman Rushdie’s cultural highlights 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z When Ms Thunberg travelled to the UK in April, several right-wing media outlets wrote polemics against the teen. Why are young activists attracting so much hate? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Stalin’s insistence on socialist realism made polemic both aesthetically and morally suspect. Is the political novel dead? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z The career he has built since then is one, long, breathless polemic. How Stephen Miller authors Trump’s immigration policy - The Washington Post 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z He wrote a dozen books, of increasingly idiosyncratic character, poised between philosophy, aphoristic cultural criticism, polemic, and autobiography. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A first-term congresswoman from Minnesota offered him a job interview and discovered they were reading the same book: a polemic warning that Muslim immigration could mean “the end of the world as we know it.” How Stephen Miller rode an anti-immigration wave to the White House 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z But “South Side” does something rare for TV, portraying a poor neighborhood with dry-eyed wit, favoring specificity over polemics or cliché. “Sherman’s Showcase” Celebrates a Lost TV Genre 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In both fiction and polemic, Marías has keenly attended to the effects of Spain’s long-deferred reckoning with its recent past. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z No more bread and circuses, went an anti-Apollo protest chant, referencing the Roman poet Juvenal, his polemic against the grain subsidy autocrats afforded the lower classes in an attempt to subdue them. The Apollo 11 moon landing was a distraction from America's problems 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z It also accused the Panorama programme of being a "seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning". Corbyn aide criticises 'irresponsible' Watson 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z It was a seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning. MPs condemn Boris Johnson for his 'despicable act of cowardice' over ambassador – live news 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z It accused the Panorama programme of being a "seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning". Labour anti-Semitism claims prompt dismay in party 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z This is a nuance that often gets lost in contemporary polemics, especially those of a generation born after Franco’s death, which has come to regard the transition as a cowardly betrayal. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z This criticism veers dangerously close, or even into, outright snobbery, as James Twitchell points out in his pro-consumption polemic Lead Us Into Temptation. Consumerism isn't a sellout - if capitalism works for all 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z To some degree, Years and Years is another Davies polemic that is full of opinions about where the future is taking us. How Years and Years creator Russell T. Davies sees the future unfolding 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z “Late Night” is not intended as a polemic against the maleness of today’s talk shows; the current crop of hosts are “doing an excellent job,” says Kaling, “particularly in this political climate.” ‘Late Night’ imagines a world where a woman has been hosting late-night comedy for decades. If only. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z In his 2017 debut polemic, “A Generation of Sociopaths,” Gibney skewered baby boomers, and here he critiques everything — and I mean everything — wrong with the legal system, starting with how it educates new lawyers. Review | A venture capitalist’s solutions for our troubled legal system 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Concurring in an abortion case in May, Justice Clarence Thomas penned a lengthy and lurid polemic, warning that abortion rights are a form of racist eugenics revivalism. How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z But I was only becoming acquainted with a playwright who melds a unique set of influences: Plato’s dialogues, Brecht’s epic theater, Shaw’s comedy of ideas and Mamet’s stylish polemics, to name the most prominent. ‘Hillary and Clinton’ playwright Lucas Hnath meticulously masters the messiness of life 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z What’s more, Shan’s measured tone — this is not a polemic by any means — makes the story more powerful. Review | The story that a Chinese businessman could have told 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Biden himself said he didn't condemn it as forcefully because he didn't want to start a "polemic debate." Flashback: Biden told Chinese audience 'I fully understand' one-child policy 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “Devastated by scandals, inflamed by polemics, French Catholicism is bankrupt.” Holy Week continues, and Paris life resumes, without Notre Dame 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z They were all designed to attract followers with polemic content on race, gender and other often-polarizing topics. Through email leaks and propaganda, Russians sought to elect Trump, Mueller finds 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z He had assembled some artifacts of sideline endeavors, a polemic of swag. The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z If that’s true, one wonders how she managed to live the way she did: married to a gay man, writing genre-bending feminist polemics. The Radical Style of Andrea Dworkin 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It is an eccentric as well as deadly serious book, a mixture of journalism, memoir and polemic. Was Thomas Kuhn Evil? 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z But the vehemence and humor of her polemics in defense of pluralism and minority rights had made her a beloved figure to an increasingly embattled opposition. Railing Against India’s Right-Wing Nationalism Was a Calling. It Was Also a Death Sentence. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z A Christian polemics site called Pulpit & Pen denounced Mr. Cahn in several posts. #MAGA Church: The Doomsday Prophet Who Says the Bible Predicted Trump 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The rise of populism was occurring, but it was never our intention to make a polemic. Why the alien-occupation drama Captive State isn’t a Trump film 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In his seminal book, “The Jews of Islam,” Lewis points out that in the Middle Ages, when polemics against Jews were commonplace in the Christian world, they were rare in the Islamic world. Opinion | Anti-Semitism has spread through the Islamic world like a cancer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z A powerful and wide-ranging lead performance from Alex Reid helps writer-director Christopher Morrison keep an overtly political genre exercise from devolving into a tedious polemic. Reviews: ‘Yucatán’ sets sail on Netflix; Alex Reid powers ‘The Bellwether’ and more 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Providing a much-needed polemic on the current climate, Toni Morrison’s collection of writings and speeches focus around the themes of responsibility, fascism and globalization. The best new books for Black History Month 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Her book is a plea, at times an erudite polemic, to wrest back some of that control and moral authority from science to society at large. Review | Reining in the hubris of science and scientists 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z "The film deserves praise not as a polemic but as a richly humanistic, emotionally searing drama that sticks in the memory," said The Hollywood Reporter. Director hopes his film becomes 'redundant' 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The focus in today’s polemics is invariably on how tribes ruthlessly demonize each other. Perspective | Pundits who decry ‘tribalism’ know nothing about real tribes 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z We are not moved to write polemics against paganism when Homer has Odysseus slaughter Penelope’s suitors, such massacres being as much a part of Homeric time as banquets and bards. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z But I do remember hearing someone I quote in the book deliver a polemic at a Stanford conference in 2005 about the “participatory panopticon.” From apricots to Apple: Keith Spencer on the "People's History of Silicon Valley 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z We can theorize, but won’t be told, why YouTube thinks we want to see a right-wing polemic about Islam in Europe after watching a video about travel destinations in France. How Secrecy Fuels Facebook Paranoia 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z On Monday, he acknowledged that “this is an issue that generates a lot of polemics, but it should be understood that this is not an issue of political sympathies.” Mexico defends hands-off stance on Venezuela 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture,” the new book from Seattle-based musician, writer and educator Shepherd Siegel, is part cultural history, part polemic. Shepherd Siegel takes on pop cultural upstarts — from Bugs Bunny to Banksy — in a book that’s part cultural history, part polemic 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Douglass himself published thousands of pages of memoirs, journalism, polemics, speeches, fiction and poetry, and sat for more photographs than any other celebrity of the 19th century. Review | Frederick Douglass: From hunted fugitive slave to brilliant elder statesman 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Mr Leonard forged his career writing plays, sound poetry, political polemic and a biography of the 19th century Scottish poet James 'BV' Thomson. Scottish poet Tom Leonard dies age 74 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Yet evidence shows that insults, lies and polemics are what best drive the user engagement that generates that precious personal data. WhatsApp skewed Brazilian election, proving social media’s danger to democracy 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z |
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