By David Skinner (A shorter version of this article was published by The Dispatch on July 3, 2025.)  When George Clooney…

A review of Lyz Lenz’s brief against the American way of wedlock in the Washington Free Beacon.

Early last year I initiated a one-man boycott against music streaming. In this article, I stated my reasons.

A reporting essay on the use of dictionaries in court, how they have come up short, and how these failings…

A review of Matt Feeney’s Little Platoons in American Purpose, which is now part of Persuasion, in which I describe…

My review of Sarah Ogilvie’s Dictionary People in Commonweal.

A review essay about The Funny Stuff, an excellent sampler of O’Rourke’s hilarious and exacting prose style.

A review of Ilan Stavans’s The People’s Tongue, a fine and wide-ranging collection of American voices crying out in messy,…

Editor Philip Gove experienced a great deal of frustration when Webster’s Third was published, but his failure to get fuck…

Before red and blue became shorthand for conservative and liberal, before the 2000 elections and all that, Ken Martis undertook…