"We cannot make speech safe for people; only might we aim to train people adept in the art of language." (And likely 53 variantions on a theme)

Sadly.. because - the predicate appears to be a Sisyphean Task, given the aggregate accomplishments to date. Nobody imagined a species in perpetual adolescence.

Despite his strange bedfellows, Hitchens does Language. We need all the outliers - the center has become so unlovably obtuse and the extremists boringly scurrilous.


Wolf! Wolf!