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Newspeak for a New Millennium: Language Packaged to Persuade

There’s a growing genre of nonfiction that could be called “lefty paranoia about the evil brilliance of the right,” in which the Republican plan for world domination is exposed and examined from different angles, to gasps of outrage and horror. Steven Poole’s Unspeak is a new entrant in this category—a book with a clever concept Read More

Newspeak for a New Millennium: Language Packaged to Persuade

There’s a growing genre of nonfiction that could be called “lefty paranoia about the evil brilliance of the right,” in which the Republican plan for world domination is exposed and examined from different angles, to gasps of outrage and horror. Steven Poole’s Unspeak is a new entrant in this category—a book with a clever concept Read More

Eden Responds

Daily News editor Dawn Eden writes in response to criticism of a recent piece in her section that, to me, seemed to gloss over the politics of abortion, and that led a reader to apparently discover that the profile subject was spreading misinformation: "Moral rehab for reporters" --I like that. Thanks for the Read More

America Plays World Cop, and Civilians Pay Price

Recently an angel appeared to the Pope and told him that he could escape serving time in purgatory and go straight to heaven if he could endure one more photo op with Bill Clinton. So they met and while the President was staining the Pontiff's white cassock with his sound bites, a spokesman in the Read More


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