Tuesday, June 16, 2009

An Unexpected Revival of Elizabethan English

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This is a great little story I picked up from Per Omnia Saecula : Convicts use ye Olde Elizabethan slang to smuggle drugs past guards in pri...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Ends of Man, Society, and Reason: A Beginning

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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the purpose of society and government, and therefore of life (yes, I know, it’s 42). So in the conte...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Bitter Scroll Now Hungrier, Bitterer Than Ever

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Well, I’m finally giving up on the whole idea of limiting my blog to certain subject matters. My problem is that I have very many interests,...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The Truth of Irony

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There's a great description of the nature of irony in this article by Anthony Esolen , entitled "Emptying Ourselves of What We Thin...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Language of Machiavelli

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I have recently been reading a great translation of Machiavelli's The Prince done by Angelo Codevilla, a professor of international re...
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When Foreign Laws Silence Americans' Speech

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I’m glad to see a couple of important Senators drawing attention to this subject (and I'm proud of my native state of New York for takin...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

You'll Think What I Want You to Think

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I made a discovery on Netflix recently. The British show Yes, Prime Minister from the early 80s is simply brilliant in its portrayal of th...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

False Friend # 1

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False friend is the linguistic term for a word in another language that looks just like a word in your own, and so you assume it means the s...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Speaking of Propaganda, Comrade . . .

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Periodically if you read the Washington Post (I don't personally, but I like to look at the pictures), you'll see something that loo...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

New Focus

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So at long last, I've realized why I haven't been posting, and what I can do about it. As I have floated from point to point in the...