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Billy Binion | 5.7.2024 6:31 PM Free Speech THE THINGS WE CAN'T SAY As the culture war permeates American life, combatants set their sights on the ways we express ourselves. Fiona Harrigan | 9.14.2023 8:00 AM Travel QUEBEC'S LANGUAGE RESTRICTIONS LIMIT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION One Montreal restaurant was cited for having "fish and chips" on its menu. Fiona Harrigan | 9.14.2023 7:00 AM Central planning ANARCHY IN CENTRAL PARK New York politicians got out of the way for once, and something beautiful happened. John Stossel | 7.26.2023 12:30 AM Donald Trump IT LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP WILL FINALLY BE INDICTED LATER TODAY Plus: Debating whether GPT-4 actually understands language, U.S. immigration law stops a college basketball star from scoring, and more... Eric Boehm | 4.4.2023 9:37 AM Political Correctness PRATTLE, A SHAKESPEAREAN VERSION OF WORDLE, WON'T LET YOU GUESS 'SLAVE' "This anti-free speech, anti-intellectual, anti-common-sense action deserves all the scorn it can get," says Roy Thomas, former editor in chief of Marvel Comics. Robby Soave | 1.13.2023 12:14 PM Brickbats BRICKBAT: LANGUAGE POLICE Charles Oliver | 1.4.2023 4:00 AM Museum REVIEW: D.C.'S PLANET WORD MUSEUM CELEBRATES LANGUAGE Libertarians should recognize language as a quintessential example of spontaneous order. Stephanie Slade | 12.30.2022 6:00 AM Cancel Culture STOP SPAZZING OUT ABOUT 'SPAZ' Social media, streaming, and a new era of digital self-censorship Kat Rosenfield | 12.27.2022 6:00 AM Language LATIN WORD LIST BASED ON DUOLINGO COURSE If you're interested in doing the very idiosyncratic Latin Duolingo course, I've posted a word list on Memrise. Sasha Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.26.2022 10:57 PM Judiciary FORGET "YOUR HONOR," JUST CALL HIM "JUDGE" The Honorable Ben Beaton would prefer not to be called "Your Honor." Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.27.2022 6:37 PM Language RAMASWAMY, HO, AND GOLDMAN A surprising (to me) controversy. Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.20.2022 5:43 PM Language THE UKRAINE V. UKRAINE, KIEV V. KYIV, TURKEY V. TÜRKIYE, MOSCOW V. MOSKVA English names for foreign places have long differed, in many situations, from the local names. (And that's likely true of most languages.) Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.13.2022 11:55 AM Brickbats BRICKBAT: PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS? Charles Oliver | 5.25.2022 4:00 AM Reason Roundup OUR LANGUAGE HAS GOTTEN MORE EMOTIONAL. WHY? Plus: Biden’s dubious arrest record, Supreme Court rules on vaccine mandate, and more... Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.14.2022 9:30 AM Reason Roundup CHRISTMAS TRAVEL REBOUNDS DESPITE OFFICIAL HANDWRINGING ABOUT OMICRON Plus: Swearing increased during the pandemic, progressives want to see the Build Back Better agenda enacted by executive fiat, and more... Christian Britschgi | 12.21.2021 9:30 AM Health Care THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION WOULD LIKE DOCTORS TO USE WOKE JARGON A new report commits a bunch of familiar sins. Robby Soave | 11.18.2021 3:48 PM Immigration ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ISN'T AN 'INVASION' Overheated rhetoric is a ploy to treat migrants like enemy combatants. David Bier | 8.27.2021 7:30 AM Language SPEECH IS NOT VIOLENCE "Claiming that kind of victimhood gives them a sense of belonging, of togetherness." John Stossel | 7.21.2021 12:23 AM Campus Free Speech TRIGGER WARNING NOW COUNTS AS VIOLENT LANGUAGE AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY A way of warning someone they might feel offended is itself offensive? Robby Soave | 6.24.2021 12:50 PM Social Media JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE APOLOGIZES FOR USING THE WORDS TRIBE AND TRIBALISM A new article's authors thanked Twitter for calling out their problematic microaggressions. Robby Soave | 6.4.2021 3:30 PM Language WITTGENSTEIN VS. THE WOKE A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition. Crispin Sartwell | 6.3.2021 6:00 AM Music ONE NOTE SAMBA (BY JOBIM): A NEW RUSSIAN TRANSLATION Feel free to sing this! Sasha Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.3.2021 11:42 AM Culture DOES ANYBODY REALLY WANT TO BE CALLED LATINX? More than three-quarters of U.S. Hispanics have never heard the term, and only 3 percent prefer it. Daniel Raisbeck | 8.13.2020 4:50 PM Race IS YOUR MASTER BEDROOM RACIST? There’s nothing wrong with a little linguistic housekeeping, but reclassifying dozens of common words, expressions, and songs as slurs goes too far. John McWhorter | 8.12.2020 2:50 PM Politics THE CORRUPTIONS OF TALKING LIKE TRUMP By copying his language, interesting thinkers run the risk of dumbing themselves and America down. Matt Welch | 1.26.2020 6:00 AM Reason Roundup WE'RE AT THE 'CONCENTRATION CAMP SEMANTICS' STAGE OF 2019 NOW Plus: crackdown on emotional support animals, the difference between "platforms" and "publishers," and more... Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.19.2019 9:44 AM Reasontv JOHN MCWHORTER: AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN LESS RACIST The Columbia University linguist discusses the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion. Nick Gillespie | 4.11.2019 12:24 PM First Amendment JOHN MCWHORTER: AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN LESS RACIST Columbia linguist John McWhorter on the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion. Nick Gillespie, Ian Keyser, and Todd Krainin | 4.11.2019 12:00 PM Canada ETHNIC NATIONALISTS WON THE QUEBEC ELECTION. WHAT FUELED THEIR RISE? Don't mistake this election for a Trump-inspired victory - Quebec's toxic anti-immigration politics are home grown. Todd Krainin | 10.2.2018 1:20 PM Bernie Sanders BERNIE SANDERS, DEFENDER OF BREAD LINES AS SIGN OF PROSPERITY, ATTACKS AMAZON'S CORPORATE LINGO AS 'ORWELLIAN' The senator has made a few past statements that one might also consider Orwellian. Christian Britschgi | 9.11.2018 12:40 PM Crime IT'S SO RIGHT THAT IT USUALLY DOESN'T HAPPEN A very nice comment about our move. Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 12.15.2017 3:24 PM Gender FRENCH PRESIDENT VOWS CRACKDOWN ON 'VERBAL VIOLENCE' AGAINST WOMEN And he wants to censor online porn, too. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.27.2017 3:10 PM ridesharing AN UBER DRIVER IS FINED FOR NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH, BUT TECH INNOVATION PROVIDES SMARTER SOLUTIONS Why should local governments demand a default language when we have the tools to sort it all out? Scott Shackford | 6.20.2017 12:45 PM Television THAT TIME NEW YORK'S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DECIDED TO TEACH KIDS WHAT AN 'OREO' IS Friday A/V Club: Lessons in slang Jesse Walker | 4.28.2017 9:35 AM Language GOOD PUNCTUATION CAN SURE SAVE A LOT OF MONEY Punctuation matters. A. Barton Hinkle | 3.27.2017 12:00 PM Profanity DIRTY WORDS If you can't say something nice, go right ahead. Kevin Currie-Knight | 12.30.2016 10:00 AM Alt-Right WHY IT'S A MISTAKE TO DESCRIBE THE ALT-RIGHT AS 'NEO-NAZIS' Backwards-looking attitudes about race, religion, and sex have been a hallmark of the Republican coalition for decades, and are hardly grounds for Hitler Youth comparisons. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.29.2016 1:32 PM Language THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE KEEPS EVOLVING Spontaneous order in action Jesse Walker | 11.3.2016 12:55 PM Culture ASSIMILATION, 2016-STYLE: COME TO AMERICA, LEARN VIETNAMESE East meets South in Orange County, California. Jesse Walker | 6.2.2016 12:30 PM Trans TRANSGENDER PRONOUN POLICING LEADS TO GOVERNMENT-MANDATED SPEECH Will a requirement, by law, to refer to an individual as 'they,' hold up? Scott Shackford | 5.25.2016 12:25 PM Copyright PARAMOUNT OBJECTS TO KLINGON LANGUAGE AMICUS BRIEF BY LANGUAGE CREATION SOCIETY It doesn't want to deal with the Klingon language copyrightability issue. Ed Krayewski | 5.5.2016 11:10 AM Copyright PARAMOUNT COPYRIGHT CLAIM ON KLINGON LANGUAGE CHALLENGED IN KLINGON LANGUAGE Paramount's arguments lack reason, or "meq Hutlh." Ed Krayewski | 4.28.2016 1:50 PM Gender GENDERQUEERING THE DICTIONARY Merriam-Webster added a slew of new gender-related terms to its lexicon, including transphobia, cisgender, and genderqueer. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.26.2016 12:00 PM Language HOW DEMOCRATS WIN DEBATES BY CORRUPTING ENGLISH Sloppy language, sloppy thoughts. David Harsanyi | 4.22.2016 12:01 AM Language THE FALL AND DECLINE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE How :-), :-(, and emoticons helped lead to Trump A. Barton Hinkle | 3.21.2016 12:00 PM Language THE RETURN OF ROGER FUCKEBYTHENAVELE Oldest use of the word fucke sexually in writing pushed back 150 years. Charles Paul Freund | 9.21.2015 12:01 AM Political Correctness NEW APP FOR POLITICALLY CORRECTING YOUR LANGUAGE Never again be heteronormative, cissexist, racist, sexist, etc. Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2015 11:03 AM More * About * Browse Topics * Events * Staff * Jobs * Donate * Advertise * Subscribe * Contact * Media * Shop * Amazon Reason Facebook@reason on XReason InstagramReason TikTokReason YoutubeApple PodcastsReason on FlipboardReason RSS © 2024 Reason Foundation | Accessibility | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Notifications