Semantics

Semantics

An Ill-Defined Petition

Theodore Dalrymple

Thirty thousand people—I was tempted to write harridans and harpies, but there must have...

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Choose Your Words Wisely

Theodore Dalrymple

Is attention to the correct use of words mere pedantry or, as Confucius thought, the neces...

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To Err Is Human, to Detect Divine

Theodore Dalrymple

The pedant seeks error, not truth, and delights to find it. Indeed, the search for error m...

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Taking Out the Rubbish

Theodore Dalrymple

Foolishness springs eternal. And this is just as well for us journalists, because it gives...

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At a Loss for Words

Matt Gibson

It's official"words no longer have meaning. As a proud member of society's educated, ...

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Your Dad Is Not Hitler

Theodore Dalrymple

A few weeks ago I noticed the following slogan painted on the walls of a supermarket in Fr...

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The Money of Fools

Theodore Dalrymple

People often claim to have cultivated their inner child as if this were a good thing to ha...

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Who Gets to Name the Snow?

Kathy Shaidle

Here's the fastest, surest way to identify the subspecies hackus punditus"watch for th...

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In Defense of Neanderthals

Jim Goad

The most stubbornly hypocritical glitch in the egalitarian mindset is that eugenics is rou...

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Unsexing the Language

Jared Taylor

Yesterday I stopped by a Methodist church that was having a charity Christmas-tree sale. A...

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Relief for the Phobiaphobic

Kathy Shaidle

For right-wingers, November proved to be the cruelest month in quite some time. The Keny...

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Cuckoo Policies

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The Dictionary Definition of Stupid: Redefining the Word “Woman”

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Raising the Bard

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An Ill-Defined Petition

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Choose Your Words Wisely

Semantics

To Err Is Human, to Detect Divine

Semantics

Taking Out the Rubbish

Semantics

At a Loss for Words

Semantics

Your Dad Is Not Hitler

Semantics

The Money of Fools

Semantics

Who Gets to Name the Snow?

Semantics

In Defense of Neanderthals

Semantics

Unsexing the Language

Semantics

Relief for the Phobiaphobic

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