I no longer need to be persuaded that descriptivism, not prescriptivism, is the way to go in linguistics—although I hasten…

Walsh and Middleton make a good point about the Creation-Fall-Redemption story of Scripture: Christians may tend to think of the Bible…

Read the whole thing, but if you want a little help getting to the good parts, feel free to use…

In our contemporary society, it is almost automatically assumed, primarily under Immanuel Kant's influence, that the mature adult must attain…

Tanya M. Luhrmann is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times with a Ph.D. from Cambridge and a professorship…

What do you do if you’re not sure what a word means? Wait for it... You look it up in…

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I saw this sidebar at The Atlantic not too long ago. Notice the first item: The article itself doesn't use the…

I may be at risk of becoming the boy who cried "Read This," but this point from Mark Bauerlein about…

Skeptical humanist writer Kurt Vonnegut wrote an experimental novel, Breakfast of Champions, in which he told one of his characters, Dwayne…