Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is a powerful expression of and for humanity. It's not simply a classic of ...

A puzzle for courts and judges involves interpreting the meaning of words. The latest AI and LLMs are coming to their aid. I ...

Later thinkers expanded the method of suspicion. The philosopher Paul Ricoeur famously described Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud as the “masters of suspicion”—figures who sought to expose hidden power ...

Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure claimed verbal thinking occurs through minimal differences of sound within a language. Change-a-Letter puzzles test this theory.

Critical thinking is our best self-defense mechanism. It helps us see through the smokescreens, the manipulative focus group-tested language, the distorted charts and graphs, the half truths, the ...

In a new paper, I examine, along with a co-author (James Heilpern), whether "subject to the jurisdiction" would have had a familiar legal meaning to lawyers in the mid-nineteenth century, and if so ...

Library Commission met Monday for the first of two special meetings to begin drafting new public library standards. The ...

Right off the bat, I have to acknowledge that English is a terrible language for love. You can “love” your spouse, your dog, your job, the Red Sox and Chicago deep-dish pizza. If love means the same ...

From the epic poetry of Dante to the films of Federico Fellini, Italian is a language that has stamped an indelible mark on ...

Ukrainian tattoo artist Ievgenii Matsapura brings conceptual depth, rigor, and innovation to America’s tattoo scene.

This idea comes from 'The 5 Love Languages' by Gary Chapman, where words of affirmation are described as one of the primary ...

“The findings matter because they show that an all-too-common environmental risk – elevated solitary screen time – can worsen ...