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iconoclasm

[ahy-kon-uh-klaz-uhm] / aɪˈkɒn əˌklæz əm /




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Iconoclasm is the author’s default sensibility and not only with respect to the economics profession.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Iconoclasm, he said, always brought with it ostracism — revolutionary ideas took time to catch on.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020

Iconoclasm also lent itself to what would eventually become a permanent split between the eastern and western churches – Orthodoxy and Catholicism.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Iconoclasm can be accidental or purposeful, an act of liberation or oppression, and there’s never any guarantee that it will work.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2015

Such was the issue of Iconoclasm in the East.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William




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