She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.
In education, an under - appreciated but powerful example of the impact of ideas can be found in the influence of Ayn Rand, a Russian - American novelist and polemicist who died in 1982.