Presents a collection of essays that describe the values and attitudes of Americans that are reflected through the use of language.

The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant new journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times. Nunberg has

These essays offer conceptual, historical, and analytical perspectives on one of the most significant challenges to global security in the twenty-first century:

A decade before being proclaimed part of the "axis of evil," North Korea raised alarms in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo as the pace of its clandestine nuclear we

An attention-grabbing, thought-provoking exploration of the life of the word "asshole," by a renowned linguist and author