The Story of Cool

My Humanities essay on the rise of cool, the American slang term that took on new life beginning in the…

Skinner on Redskin

I wrote an article about the history of the term redskin for Lexicon Valley, the language blog on Slate. (Lexicon…

New York Times Editors’ Choice

The Times called The Story of Ain’t “an engrossing account of the continuing ruckus over Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.”