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Grammar Yahtzee

From a post on Object Dreams, a Tumblr blog. The post is a rewriting of The Elements of Style using predictive text, a program that assists typing by anticipating which…

Unruly Voices: Essays On Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

by Gabriel Santos-Neves,

Mark Kingwell on fugitive democracy, the cultural role of philosophers, and hockey-borne Canadian anti-intellectualism

Contest of Words

by Ben Lerner,

High school debate and the demise of public speech

Fuss budgeting

by Harper’s Staff,

On simple human decency

by Ben Metcalf,

In praise of imitation

by Nicholas Delbanco,

On the sincerest form of flattery

A literary fund-raiser

by Barney Frank,

A tale of spin

by David Suter,

Talking into the wind

by Charles Austin Beard,

Murmurings of a common scold

by Burges Johnson,

An apt pupil