From Identity Politics to Academic Masturbation
Mar 28, 2018 How did we arrive at this moment where university learning means parroting incoherent political rhetoric?
Challenging Trump’s Language of Fascism
Jan 10, 2018 With the advent of the Trump presidency, language is undergoing a shift in the United States: It now treats dissent, critical media and scientific evidence as a species of "fake news."
Sean Spicer Reaches Orwellian Levels of ‘Duckspeak’ With His News Briefings
Jun 3, 2017 The vocabulary and speaking style of Donald Trump's press secretary resembles a form of speech from George Orwell's "1984."
America the Illiterate
Sep 1, 2016 The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. All the traditional tools of democracies—including dispassionate scientific and historical truth, facts, news and rational debate—are useless instruments in a world that lacks the capacity to use them.
‘Díselo Ahora’: Why a Sentence Spoken in Spanish Matters
Feb 21, 2016 The recent sparring in Spanish between GOP presidential rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz offers a glimpse into Americans’ shifting and sometimes conflicted views on heritage and language use in the U.S.
VIDEO: Chris Hedges and John Ralston Saul Discuss Neoliberalism, False Populism and Donald Trump
Oct 27, 2015 “I think that the word 'ideology' has to be used very carefully But when people come forward with rather simplistic truths -- you already know you’re in trouble when they say they’ve got the truth -- and they say: 'This is what must happen This is how things work This is what dominates society' That’s an ideology"“I think that the word 'ideology' has to be used very carefully'".
The U.S. Is Now the World’s Second-Largest Spanish-Speaking Country
Jun 30, 2015 The United States now has 41 million native Spanish speakers and 11 million people who are bilingual.
‘Normal Barbie’ With Zits, Bruises and Stretch Marks Will Soon Be on the Market
Nov 24, 2014 You can say goodbye to all your old disproportionate Barbies thanks to designer Nickolay Lamm's new doll; Obama may have set a precedent for a conservative president with his executive orders; meanwhile, studies show infants recognize the language they hear when born even after years of no longer speaking it. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Secret Service Seeks to Automate Social Media Message Evaluation
Jun 16, 2014 To help it judge whether to take specific threats online seriously, the U.S. Secret Service has offered a contract for analytics software that can be used "to detect sarcasm and false positives" on Twitter and other social media.
Male Speech Patterns Are Changing
Dec 13, 2013 "Uptalk," the habit of increasing the pitch of one's voice at the end of sentences, is on the rise among California males, new research shows.
