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June 26, 2025

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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: […]

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