
Robert D. King
Robert D. King is a retired professor of linguistics, Germanic Studies, Jewish Studies, and South Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Weaponizing Words: Language and Oppression
An article in Tablet magazine last month by Paul Berman, “Lynching and Liberalism,” paints the gloomy history of coercion from the Stalinist excesses of many radicals in the 1930s down to the blowback against the recent Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate.” In discussing the “New Left” and
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