ETC.: A Review of General Semantics

Nassir Ghaemi. A First Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness. New York: Penguin, 2011. Nassir Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School and the director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical...

Of the Lonrd and Man Kenneth Burke asks: "Do we simply use words, or do they not also use us?" (1) Likewise, is man simply God's creature, an extension of Him? Isn't God also man's creature, an extension of him? As an extension of man, God...

Over 100 years ago, Henry Preserved Smith, an American biblical scholar whom the Presbytery of Cincinnati tried for heresy in 1892, claimed to have found about 150 names of divinities in the Jewish Bible, many of them given to individuals. He commented...

In calm and cool silence, once again I find my old accustomed place among brethren, where, perchance, no human tongue Shall utter words; where hymn is never sung, Nor deep-toned organ blown, nor censer swung; Nor dim light falling through...

Noah Feldman. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices. New York: Twelve, 2010. In this compelling biography, Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman tells the story of four larger-than-life Supreme Court justices...

This article examines the general nature, history, and language features of one type of fraudulent e-mail spam, the ubiquitous Nigerian fraud (4-1-9) letter. Patterns in content include similar narratives involving vast sums of money to be transferred...

Introduction The linkage between rhetoric and theater is a preexisting one. As mediums of communication, both are addressed, embodied, and performative. Both constitute and appeal to an audience, which is there to exercise judgment. Both produce...