Monday, August 13th, 2018 Lackeys and their odd connection to toads V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel-winning writer who died recently, wrote about colonialism, displacement, exile, and being a victim, but was not universally held in high esteem. As one appreciation noted, H.B. Singh, a Marxist and Indian critic, called Naipaul “a lackey for neo-colonialism.” Washington at times seems to be full of “lackeys.” Just before a special […] Merrill Perlman
a Monday, December 4th, 2017 Readers respond: CJR’s use of ‘whomever’ and ‘reticence’ Merrill Perlman
a Monday, October 9th, 2017 What the new Google VR headset can teach us about grammar Merrill Perlman
