Christopher Orlet
I owe a debt of gratitude to Deborah Tannen. Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and best-selling author of…
“Talk much about a thing,” said H.H. Brackenridge, “and you will put it into the people’s heads.” Today Brackenridge, one…
Diversity has taken on a whole new meaning outside America’s borders. Where once it meant embracing different cultures it now…
When 16-year-old Devin Thompson shot down two Alabama police officers and a dispatcher in cold blood in 2003, local journalists,…
There is an old Turkish saying, “Tell me who your friend is, and I’ll tell you who you are.” Turks…
Imagine wintertime without sleigh-riding, snowball fights, and piping hot coffee. Bleak, I would think. But if the Safety Nazis have…
After much fruitless soul-searching Rolling Stone magazine last month announced it had a change of heart and would not after…
Twelve years ago, the Liberal British MP Lord Alton quit the House of Commons largely because his party supported abortion…
“This is a two-million-dollar piece of conceptual art. This is bin full of wastepaper. Okay, class, who can tell me…
One of the smaller, but no less bloody skirmishes in the Culture War is being waged on the linguistic front….
