Word Watch – July 2010
The big political news of May 6 was the British people’s vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party. The …
The big political news of May 6 was the British people’s vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party. The …
Lately I had a chance to converse with Leland Yeager, who has frequently contributed his insights to this column, about the subject of prescriptivism — …
What shall we call this age we’re living in? It isn’t the Era of Good Feeling, that’s for sure — though I hope it isn’t …
The world of words is like a banana republic — a scene of turmoil in which low and common entities constantly compete for power. You …
To me, one of the most horrible features of the disaster in Haiti was the frequent complaint of doctors and nurses that they did not …
Since President Obama appears to be committed to spending as much as it takes – on “jobs” bills, investments in “green industries,” and pork of …
On January 20, the first news day after the Massachusetts election, the headline in my local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, was this: “Patient Access …
“What this country needs,” wrote Isabel Paterson in 1932, “is a lot less of all sorts of things.” She was thinking about laws – laws …
I’m not a fan of Richard Cohen of the Washington Post, but in January he got something very right. He was addressing one of the …
A friend and I are going out to dinner. I pick him up at his apartment house. On entering, I can’t help noticing a large …