Tag: The Kingdom of Speech
Evolution and the Insensitive Sandwich
David Brooks of the New York Times has taken a lot razzing for a column about social class signifiers and how they serve to insulate the upper middle class.
An Evolutionary View on Speech Isn’t “Settled Science”
And in large part it isn’t even about science.
Tom Wolfe and the “Kudzu” of “Settled Science”
Writing in Commentary, Andrew Ferguson offers a fantastic review of Wolfe’s takedown of Darwin.
Tom Wolfe: Human Exceptionalist
The ubiquitous attacks on human exceptionalism are one of the current age’s worst decadent tendencies.
Why Does Man Have Language?
Both humans and other animals use signs. Signs are things that direct attention to something else.