Language Does Not Lie — Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer was a philologist, a German and a Jew in Dresden during the Nazi regime and the world war. As …
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Insults: First As A Wall then as a Weapon
I put aside ten years of political blogging early this year to focus on long deferred writing projects. The hours …
Les Femmes et Les Hommes
“…she is looking at him, and he is looking at his audience…” A friend, a fine writer and translator, Allison …
In Translation
I’ve been away from political keyboarding for a few days, at a translation conference in Bellevue, Washington. Two hundred or …
Ubuntu
Now here’s a word that needs to make its way into all the world’s languages — and hearts. Ubuntu: a …
Just Don’t Call It Fascism
I’ve been assembling material for an essay about the promiscuous use of the word “fascism” for some time. Though my …