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Earlier this month, Paramount acquired the Free Press, a right-of-center news site, for $150 million and made its founder, the polemicist Bari Weiss, editor in chief of CBS’s news operations.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Dworkin was a feminist polemicist who had a lot of ideas that don't age well, but in this book, she's got conservative women dead to rights.

From Salon • May 8, 2023

Of course, a veteran polemicist loves having an enemy to point to.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2023

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a conviction for incitement to racial hatred and discrimination against far-right French presidential candidate and polemicist Eric Zemmour was not a violation of his freedom of expression.

From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2022

Time after time the censors interfered, but Marx was too brilliant a polemicist, even thus early in his career, and far too subtle for the censors.

From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by Spargo, John