language

January 21, 2026

ZAHRAN: Progressive politics and the English language

May 5, 2021 Mary Zahran

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell In 1946, George Orwell wrote “Politics and the English Language,” an essay in which he criticizes the use of language by politicians to […]

WILLIAMS: Language and thought

September 23, 2020 Walter Williams

Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation.” Gore Vidal, his 20th-century intellectual successor, elaborated saying: […]