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As you noted, there are "other guides". As an antidote to Strunk & White, I have always liked the Fowler brothers' The King's English (1906): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Kin…

> If I close my eyes and put earplugs in when an ad is playing is that piracy? See: https://www.iflscience.com/eyetracking-moviepass-app-will-pa...

I hope you are right, but this is a for-profit company that has just received a new round of funding. From an Austin American-Statesman article[1], "Colossal Biosciences, which thi…

About the turn of the twentieth century, American actor William Gillette was writing a stage play about Sherlock Holmes. Gillette wrote to Conan Doyle asking if he would object to …

I'm a big fan of "fun to read" "trashy" novels. Raymond Chandler (author of the Philip Marlowe detective novels) once said that when he got stuck writing he would have a man come t…

A couple of years after this essay appeared Jedediah Purdy published something of a response in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/thoreau-radical-se...

Please, Barnes' "reasoning" is not naiveté. Barnes and his colleagues understand exactly what they are doing. The Barnes article is evidence of nothing but contempt for its intende…