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• n  a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)

• The Dutch-born architect-polemicist doesn't think architecture should change the world so much as the world should change architecture.
• She was lively and funny and engaging and boisterous and outrageous and a little bit of a polemicist .
• In this compulsively readable, deeply unnerving book, Wright traces the rise of Islamic terrorism from the Egyptian polemicist Sayyid Qutb to the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood .

• polemist
• polemic

News & Articles

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• Why Glenn Greenwald Drives The Media Crazy
  Critics keep questioning Glenn Greenwald's bona fides as a journalist because he is a polemicist with very strong views about the dangers of government power, and eager to engage and/or condemn any and all who disagree. David Gregory raised his doubts on Meet the Press and Andrew Ross Sorkin did it on CNBC's Squawk Box (later retracting and apologizing), questioning whether Greenwald somehow ...
  June 30, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Jon Paulien in Adventist News Network
  Brown is probably a skilled polemicist, [and] he's put together a case in fiction form,Paulien tells Adventist News Network in a telephone interview. "The overall thing is that for the younger generation today, science, religion and the...
• Bill Buford in New York Times
  Dario might be in some ways the first rock star butcher, but he did a lot of things others hadn't done,said Mr. Buford, who is working in a restaurant kitchen in Lyon. "He was the first polemicist. He is the first unapologetic meat eater."
• Larry Estrada in Seattle Times
  Estrada described Horowitz as a "polemicist and pamphleteer" and not a serious scholar.