The term “gender critical” is really a euphemism recently created to replace TERF with a phrase that doesn’t have such negative connotations. […]
“Community” is derived from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French communité, meaning, primarily, “joint ownership.” A community, at least in theory, is a […]
Trump has been merciless toward anyone else in government who reveals his administration’s secrets, tweeting that ‘‘the real story that Congress, the […]
Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy […]
Through the whole late 20th century, “existential” floated through American conversation mostly as a kind of mush — a loose gesture in […]
The way we use “entitled” feels less strange when you consider that its two meanings have slightly different origins. Once upon a […]
“Owned” is borrowed from hacker slang. If you got owned, that meant some hacker jimmied the lock on a virtual back door, […]
In 2009, Michael B. Oren, soon to become Israel’s ambassador to the United States, wrote an essay for Commentary examining seven “existential” […]
Politicization is the last refuge of the scoundrel. To “politicize” something — hurricanes, intelligence, science, football, gun violence — is to render […]
Part of what makes the modern use of “winning” so strange is that it’s often used in contexts that are not competitions. […]
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