Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market
An excerpt from Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
An excerpt from Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
A special podictionary episode with Philip Durkin.
Susie Dent answers some of your language questions.
An excerpt from Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s.
Anatoly Liberman examines meaning of the word Kike.
Julia Cresswell, author of The Insect that Stole Butter? on the puzzling history of the word ‘sack’.
OUP celebrates the Nobel Prizes of Ostrom and Williamson!
Elvin Lim looks at why sometimes you need to play hard to get.
An excerpt from Cuba: What Everyone Needs To Know.
An excerpt from The Thought That Counts by James Douglas Kant with Martin Franklin, PH.D., and Linda Wasmer Andrews.
Jesse Sheidlower is Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The F-Word. Recognized as one of the foremost authorities on obscenity in English, he has written about language for a great many publications, including a recent article on Slate. Here, Jesse discusses the criteria for including certain words or obscenities in […]
What Rebecca has been reading.
Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil, looks at the new FTC regulations regarding bloggers.
The podictionary word of the week is “duck”.
An excerpt from Megadisasters by Florin Diacu