Geoffrey Nunberg

Linguist and author Geoffrey Nunberg discusses his new book The Years of Talking Dangerously and the way in which the media, politicians, and all of us use words to not say what we really mean.

Linguist and author Geoffrey Nunberg discusses his new book The Years of Talking Dangerously and the way in which the media, politicians, and all of us use words to not say what we really mean.

Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist and author, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show (Public Affairs 2006), on which is more important words or deeds.

Six years after the attacks, the mood is not as mournful, but there are many palpable changes in how we live our lives. We look at what’s different with the local response to emergencies, how local and national government agencies changed, the difference in our image abroad, is there a ...

Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist at Stanford University, senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, and Christopher Hitchens columnist for Vanity Fair and author of Why Orwell Matters (Basic Books, 2002) on the 100th birthday of a remarkable ...