Not cows, of course. That's a cruel thing to do! I speak of tipping for services, especially at restaurants. It seems an ingenious syst...

Welcome to Part Seven of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previous ...

Ellen Page is a lesbian. Far more interesting than the actress' sexuality is her characterization of her previous nondisclosure as, ...

Aristotle famously argued (§ 1378 and 1452) that the impact of tragedy and oratory is very much contingent on the speaker's ability to ...

Directed by José Padilha. 2014. My honest review of the  Robocop reboot should begin with a picture of me eating my hat, but a mea culpa ...

As you dear readers know, I like analyzing structures. I like to discover how the bits and bobs fit together, find symmetries and rhymes, a...

Fair . Oh what they've done to you, poor little word, treated so lovingly by The Bard, Fair encounter / Of two most rare affections! ...

Throughout my weeklong miasma I watched a good deal of TV, so remarkable is it for demanding absolutely no cognitive activity from the view...

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. –F. Chopin Most minds re...

Complaints about a lack of diversity usually come from politically motivated quarters, but it's not a useless or inappropriate question...