Unlike most polemicists, Lanier has a disarming tendency to conclude forceful assertions with a moment of cheerful self-deprecation.

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Polemicists will be able to bolster their arguments with new evidence.

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I'm regularly amazed, for instance, at the overly-deferential welcome reserved for visiting writers, scholars and polemicists, some of whom are granted a star status here that they could never hope to achieve at home.

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And I'm mentioning to you Islamic primary sources and I think that's important because these are not sources that were written by, you know, polemicists or Christians or non-Muslims, but by Islam's own most authoritative and revered historians and theologians.

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