by Starlette Thomas | Apr 5, 2021 | Opinion
George Floyd. Derek Chauvin. Breonna Taylor. Brett Hankison. Donald Trump. Joseph Biden. Colin Kaepernick. Cathy Park Hong. Amanda Gorman. We say their names and call forth their presence, evoke a memory or produce a feeling within us. We clinch our teeth or shout...
by Jack Moline | Sep 11, 2019 | Opinion
There are times when the simplest words are the most eloquent. Expressing an idea, a concept or a feeling in uncomplicated language allows something profound to rise above the craft of constructing a meaningful phrase. I had the experience of contrasting two parallel...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 8, 2014 | Opinion
I could be called a word man, I suppose — whether writing, reading, editing, teaching, or preaching, I’m dealing with words. And I like words. Love them, and the way they can be so expressive or descriptive or evocative. But sometimes words fail. How can...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jul 5, 2013 | Opinion
It is common knowledge that the perennial Food Network star, Paula Deen, has used a condescending and derogatory term toward African Americans and spoken warmly of the world of the genteel antebellum (pre-Civil War) South. Before this news-making revelation, Deen and...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 28, 2012 | Opinion
If we priced and valued words as we do commodities, on the basis of supply and demand, then words would be dirt-cheap these days. There are more words available in the cultural marketplace than ever before: round-the-clock TV news and talk radio, stacks and stacks of...
