Morris Berman

One of my favorite writers, Morris Berman, has been out and about recently spreading his message. Berman is the author of The Twilight of American Culture and the even bleaker Dark Ages America. From his speech at Southern Utah University: …Berman said America’s identity was created by rejecting the Old World, what German philosopher Georg [...]

What’s wrong with adjectives?

You’ll receive a crash course on the grammar of adjectives, as well as a thorough explanation of why it’s wrong to use them too much in your writing, from this first chapter of When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, by Ben Yagoda, in today’s New York Times. The root of the problem is lazy [...]

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