On Noam Chomsky’s Theory of Human Nature
Image by Andrew Rusk Noam Chomsky is perhaps the most famous (or infamous) academic who is also a prominent public intellectual. Chomsky is known first and foremost for his decades…
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The Weaponization of Words
The relationship between a word and what it signifies is not arbitrary. That misconception, the chief legacy of that poster boy of postmodernism, Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, is largely…
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How Language Works and Why Political Correctness Doesn’t
Have you ever wondered how something can mean the opposite of what it actually says? How is it that we don’t hear a literal meaning when we hear terms like…
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