Announcing Johnson: A language blog from The Economist
June 15, 2010
My newest project: a revival of The Economist’s 1990s column, Johnson, now in blog form, to discuss language in all its glory.
More Intelligent Life, “Politics and metaphors”
June 8, 2010
“Why do people keep calling Elena Kagan a ‘blank slate’? … If you really consciously choose a metaphor, pick it up off that shelf and swing it a few times saying ‘yes, this one’, and then use it over and over, it had better be a good one…”
YOU ARE WHAT YOU SPEAK
February 7, 2011
"A flinty, fact-packed fun-house of a book" - John McWhorter, author of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue and Losing the Race, from the Foreword.Read more
"A flinty, fact-packed fun-house of a book" - John McWhorter, author of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue and Losing the Race, from the Foreword.Read more
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