Corrupt Language: Take Two
I’d like to continue to reflect on Walt’s theme. I agree with him that corrupt language–the constricted, distorted, euphemized, and formulaic terms to which “respectable” public discussion is confined...
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On April 20, British photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed in Misurata, Libya, while covering the most recent American-led military intervention in a Third World conflict. Hetherington, who...
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I just spent a week touring Vietnam, on a program sponsored by an upscale American touring company. It was not the best way to get a grip on contemporary Vietnam. In fact, I came home with the feeling...
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I know little about Sergeant Robert Bales, a countryman of ours who one night earlier this month walked off a US military base in Afghanistan, executed sixteen local civilians, nine of them children,...
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