polemics

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What Mr. Restall means is that the great explorer is still at the center of a swarm of unresolved polemics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

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.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

Davis wrote what he said were “impassioned polemics on the necessity of the urban left.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022

The Mussolini portrait will be taken down "to avoid polemics and manipulations," the industry ministry said in a statement.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022

As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann