One thing that legal analysts and linguists share is an obsession with words and texts, and their meaning and their function. Accordingly, we have today a debate about whether or not President Trump was actually impeached if Speaker Pelosi does not deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate. What does it mean to be […]
Category: Language
Re-Reading Imagined Communities for the 1000th Time
Some books just stick with you. Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is one of them. It was one of only two books that I was assigned to read in multiple classes in college. At Om Ben’s memorial service, my colleague Isaac Kramnick called it the “second-most important book […]
