Why Academics’ Writing Stinks

Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...

Religion and war

Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Spectator: On the whole, though, for a millennium in which religion has loomed so large, as a motive for actual war it seems to have been rather secondary. What then explains this obstinate modern conviction that religion is the...

Religion and war

Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Spectator: On the whole, though, for a millennium in which religion has loomed so large, as a motive for actual war it seems to have been rather secondary. What then explains this obstinate modern conviction that religion is the...

Why Academics’ Writing Stinks

Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...

Why Academics’ Writing Stinks

Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...