Recent Work
What’s In A (Place) Name?
A word always has at least some history behind it, rather than a single, simple one-to-one meaning. That history can be long and dynamic, and it continues to evolve, just like language itself. . . .
Paranoia Strikes Deep
Next year will mark the 60th anniversary of a seminal work in American political analysis, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” by Richard Hofstadter. . . . Sadly, his formulation has turned out to be more relevant in 2022 than he could have ever predicted. . . .