College English Oct 1997

Ground Rules for Polemicists: The Case of Lynne Cheney’s Truths

Donald Lazere

Abstract

Proposes some ground rules for principled debating and then, from the standpoint of a leftist, evaluates two conservative critiques (Lynne Cheney’s “Telling the Truth” and John Wilson’s “The Myth of Political Correctness”) of academia in light of these ground rules.

Journal
College English
Published
1997-10-01
DOI
10.58680/ce19973645
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Topics
multilingual writers

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