By David Skinner (A shorter version of this article was published by The Dispatch on July 3, 2025.)  When George Clooney … More

A review of Lyz Lenz’s brief against the American way of wedlock in the Washington Free Beacon.

Early last year I initiated a one-man boycott against music streaming. In this article, I stated my reasons.

A reporting essay on the use of dictionaries in court, how they have come up short, and how these failings … More

A review of Matt Feeney’s Little Platoons in American Purpose, which is now part of Persuasion, in which I describe … More

My review of Sarah Ogilvie’s Dictionary People in Commonweal.

A review essay about The Funny Stuff, an excellent sampler of O’Rourke’s hilarious and exacting prose style.

A review of Ilan Stavans’s The People’s Tongue, a fine and wide-ranging collection of American voices crying out in messy, … More

Editor Philip Gove experienced a great deal of frustration when Webster’s Third was published, but his failure to get fuck … More

Before red and blue became shorthand for conservative and liberal, before the 2000 elections and all that, Ken Martis undertook … More