Philosophy of Language

New Penguin English Library is far cry from 1963 version

25 May 2012

A fair few 'genre' novels, no non-fiction at all, and the mysterious disappearance of the previous No 4 make the new Penguin library a radical update The literary canon , supposedly, is a monolithic entity, serenely permanent against the merely voguish and faddish. Looking through the Penguin Press catalogue for July to December, I was struck by their relaunch of the Penguin English Library ...

For an addict, when the Nationals do well, a new philosophy is called for

24 May 2012

- WASHINGTON -- It was our much-anticipated quarterly lunch with Tim Kurkjian, baseball analyst extraordinaire, wherein George Will and I bathe in a constant flow of obscure statistics, Kurkjian oddities and ribald anecdotes, like the one about the Red Sox beat writer who accidentally walked in on a players' prayer meeting and was greeted by the burly right fielder, newly born-again and not yet ...

What I Learned on My Junket to China

24 May 2012

China Daily, the largest English- language newspaper in China, carried a front-page headline last week: “Village Gratitude Shows Integrity of Task.�