On June 3, at 6:13 p.m., President Trump was evidently in a bad mood. He had heard or read one too many times that he uses bad grammar and eccentric capitalization. He tweeted: After having written ...

ALLAMA Muhammad Iqbal’s poetic genius has been acknowledged far and wide. But in his own days, especially early in his literary career, a constant campaign was run to mock and disparage him. Opponents ...

Martial arts maestro Bruce Lee in his book, “Striking Thoughts,” stated that “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” I encountered his book in the gift shop of ...

Better to write it dignified / with boughten counsel at your side / than none at all. Prescribe, prescribe! Arrant Pedantry takes a look at David Bentley Hart’s recent effusion on language and ...

TEXTUALISM in law and prescriptivism in usage are, in some ways, estranged cousins. It is fitting, then, that Antonin Scalia, textualism’s most prominent advocate, and Bryan Garner, the face of modern ...