When Language Becomes the Battlefield

You have probably watched a familiar word change meaning in public use, sometimes quite quickly. A term that once described a specific action or condition gets expanded, narrowed, or inverted so that it better serves a preferred conclusion. The shift is rarely announced as a formal redefinition. It is simply repeated until the older sense … Read more

What Is Philosophy? What Makes a Philosopher?: A philosophic examination of philosophy itself.

ou see it all over. Institutions talk a big game about inquiry while punishing it out of sight. Places praise openness and then build quiet systems to decide what can be said. Language keeps sliding just beyond the thing it’s supposed to name. Questions that were ordinary yesterday somehow cost you today. All you did … Read more