CHAPTER 6: Purifying language: how to undo, or at least retard, its history of decay
Having described the history of the decay of language, Tudor scholars confront the problem of how to undo, or at least retard, that decay. As Protestantism strives to redeem decayed…
Nothing is not political, chapter umpteen
Are you decent? To retain some semblance of sanity in times like these when I have no control over the horrible things going on in our country (and around the…
Notes on textbook discrepancies as reported by the New York Times, Jan 12, 2020
The Times published an article (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share ) that compares textbook editions of the past four years from the same publisher (McGraw-Hill or Pearson) for 8th- and 11th-grade social studies in…